Merish Archives of Labor

Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7331-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Merish, Lori

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Factory Fictions: Lowell Mill Women and the Romance of Labor 33
2. Factory Labor and Literary Aesthetics: The Lowell Mill Girl, Popular Fiction, and the Proletarian Grotesque 73
3. Narrating Female Dependency: The Sentimental Seamstress and the Erotics of Labor Reform 113
4. Harriet Wilson's Our Nig and the Labor of Race 153
5. Hidden Hands: E.D.E.N. Southworth and Working-Class Performance 180
6. Writing Mexicana Workers: Race, Labor, and the Western Front 219
Postscript. Looking for Antebellum Workingwomen 247
Notes 251
Works Cited 285
Index 303

Über Autor(innen)

Lori Merish is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University and the author of Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature, also published by Duke University Press.