Rebecca Harding Davis

Life in the Iron Mills (eBook, ePUB)

And Other Stories
Redaktion: Olsen, Tillie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Recovered for a new generation of feminist readers, this revolutionary depiction of the American working poor was one of the first literary critiques of industrial capitalism by a nineteenth-century proletarian.

Originally published in 1861 in the Atlantic Monthly, "Life in the Iron Mills" remains a classic of proletarian literature that paints a bleak and incisive portrait of nineteenth-century industrial America. Rebecca Harding Davis was one of the first writers to depict a working class that was exploited and exhausted as capitalism's mills and factories destroyed both the natural environment and the human spirit.

Davis's work was first recovered in the 1970s by the Feminist Press and writer Tillie Olsen, and then expanded in the 1980s to be the most comprehensive collection of her work to date. This reissued edition includes an updated critical introduction by labor journalist Kim Kelly, and shares a uniquely prescient capitalist critique with a new generation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Feminist Press at CUNY
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781936932894
• Artikelnr.: 59787015

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Blain Harding Davis (born 1831, died 1910) was an American author and journalist. She wrote about the lives of women, people of color, and immigrants in order to effect social change. Life in the Iron Mills is her best-known work.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
1. A Note from the Publisher
2. New Introduction
3. Life in the Iron Mills
4. A Biographical Interpretation by Tillie Olsen
5. The Wife's Story
6. Anne