Sylvia J. Cook

Working Women, Literary Ladies (eBook, ePUB)

The Industrial Revolution and Female Aspiration

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the simultaneous entry of working-class women in the United States into wage-earning factory labor and into opportunities for mental and literary development. It traces the hopes and tensions generated by expectations of their gender and class from the first New England operatives in the early nineteenth century to immigrant sweatshop workers in the early twentieth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190296278
• Artikelnr.: 42676085

Autorenporträt

Sylvia Jenkins Cook was born and grew up in Belfast, N. Ireland. She was educated at Queen's University and at the University of Michigan is currently Professor of english at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She has published previously on the literature of working-class and poor people and on the literature of the American South.