Title Women, writing, and the industrial revolution / Susan Zlotnick

Published Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998

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Description viii, 325 pages ; 23 cm Contents 1. A "World Turned Upside Downwards": Men, Dematerialization, and the Disposition-of-England Question. Carlyle and the Disposition-of-England Question. Dickens, Hard Times, and Dematerialization. Medievalism and Culture -- 2. The Fortunate Fall: Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Female Myths of Progress. The Curse of Leisure: Unemployment in Mary Barton. History, Luddism, and Medievalism in Shirley. North and South, Nostalgia and Dissent: Gaskell's Double Bildungsroman -- 3. Frances Trollope, Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, and the Early Industrial Discourse. Domesticating the Factory. Eroticizing the Factory. Repairing the Factory -- 4. Nostalgia and the Ideology of Domesticity in Working-Class Literature. The Lost Paradise of the Chartists. The Ten Hours Bill and the Gendering of Nostalgia. Dialect's Nostalgic Domesticity. "A Thousand Times I'd Be a Factory Girl" -- Conclusion Past and Present: The Industrial Revolution in a (Victorian) Post-Industrial World App. Working-Class Writings Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-313) and index Subject English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Industrial revolution in literature. Industrial revolution -- Literary collections. Industrial revolution -- Great Britain -- History. Industries -- Literary collections. Literature and technology -- Great Britain -- History. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. LC no. 97049985 ISBN 0801858291

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