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Author Cook, Sylvia Jenkins, 1943-

Title Working women, literary ladies : the industrial revolution and female aspiration / Sylvia Jenkins Cook
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (292 pages)
Contents "A tangled skein" -- "Ideal mill girls" -- Across the gulf -- The prospects for fiction -- Fables of Lowell -- The working woman's bard -- Full development or self-restraint -- "Beautiful language and difficult ideas."
Summary This is an exploration of the simultaneous entry of working-class women in the US into wage-earning factory labour and into opportunities for mental and literary development. The text traces the hopes and tensions generated by expectations of their gender and class
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-283) and index
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Subject American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Working class writings, American -- History and criticism
Working class women in literature.
Working class women -- United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Working class women -- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature
American literature -- Women authors
Women and literature
Working class women in literature
Working class women -- Intellectual life
Working class writings, American
Frauenliteratur
Arbeiterliteratur
Industrielle Revolution
Arbeiterin Motiv
Arbeiterliteratur -- amerikanische -- Frau -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
Arbeiterliteratur -- amerikanische -- Frau -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
Frau -- Arbeiterliteratur -- amerikanische -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
Frau -- Arbeiterliteratur -- amerikanische -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Working class writings, American -- History and criticism.
Working class women in literature.
Working class women -- United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Working class women -- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Amerikansk litteratur -- historia -- 1800-talet -- 1900-talet.
Amerikansk litteratur -- kvinnliga författare.
Arbetarkvinnor i litteraturen.
Arbetarlitteratur -- Förenta staterna.
Kvinnor och litteratur -- Förenta staterna -- 1800-talet -- 1900-talet.
Arbetarkvinnor -- intellektuellt liv -- Förenta staterna.
United States
USA
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
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