Title Archives of labor : working-class women and literary culture in the antebellum United States / Lori Merish

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 312 pages) Contents Factory fiction : Lowell Mill women and the romance of labor -- Factory labor and literary aesthetics : the Lowell Mill girl, popular fiction, and the Proletarian grotesque -- Narrating female dependency : the sentimental seamstress and the erotics of labor reform -- Harriet Wilson's Our nig and the labor of race -- Hidden hands : E.D.E.N. Southworth and working-class performance -- Writing Mexicana workers : race, labor, and the western frontier -- Postscript: Looking for antebellum workingwomen Summary Lori Merish establishes working-class women as significant actors within nineteenth-century U.S. literary culture by analyzing previously unexplored archives of working-class women's literature, showing how white, African American, and Mexican American factory workers, seamstresses, domestic workers, and prostitutes understood themselves while forging class identity Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 10, 2017) Subject Working class women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century Working class women in literature. Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century Women textile workers -- Massachusetts -- Lowell -- History -- 19th century American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Social classes in literature. Race in literature. Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature Literature and society Popular culture Race in literature Social classes in literature Women textile workers Working class women in literature Working class women -- Social conditions Massachusetts -- Lowell United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2016051069 ISBN 9780822373315 0822373319

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