Merish Lori Merish

Archives of Labor (eBook, PDF)

Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States

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Produktbeschreibung

In Archives of Labor Lori Merish establishes working-class women as significant actors within literary culture, dramatically redrawing the map of nineteenth-century US literary and cultural history. Delving into previously unexplored archives of working-class women's literature-from autobiographies, pamphlet novels, and theatrical melodrama to seduction tales and labor periodicals-Merish recovers working-class women's vital presence as writers and readers in the antebellum era. Her reading of texts by a diverse collection of factory workers, seamstresses, domestic workers, and prostitutes boldly challenges the purportedly masculine character of class dissent during this era. Whether addressing portrayals of white New England "e;factory girls,"e; fictional accounts of African American domestic workers, or the first-person narratives of Mexican women working in the missions of Mexican California, Merish unsettles the traditional association of whiteness with the working class to document forms of cross-racial class identification and solidarity. In so doing, she restores the tradition of working women's class protest and dissent, shows how race and gender are central to class identity, and traces the ways working women understood themselves and were understood as workers and class subjects.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822373315
• Artikelnr.: 54788312

Autorenporträt

Lori Merish

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. Factory Fictions: Lowell Mill Women and the Romance of Labor  33
2. Factory Labor and Literary Aesthetics: The Lowell Mill Girl, Popular
Fiction, and the Proletarian Grotesque  73
3. Narrating Female Dependency: The Sentimental Seamstress and the Erotics
of Labor Reform  113
4. Harriet Wilson's Our Nig and the Labor of Race  153
5. Hidden Hands: E.D.E.N. Southworth and Working-Class Performance  180
6. Writing Mexicana Workers: Race, Labor, and the Western Front  219
Postscript. Looking for Antebellum Workingwomen  247
Notes  251
Works Cited  285
Index  303