Title
- Garland Studies In American Popular History And Culture
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Amal AmirehPublication Details
BookGarland Pub2000Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS374.W6 A45 2000 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Against this view and to highlight the cultural importance of working-class women, this study argues that, in responding to industrialization, middle class writers such as Melville, Hawthorne, Fern, Davies, and Phelps used the figures of the factory worker and the seamstress to express their anxieties about unstable gender and class identitites. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, — 1804-1864 — Characters — Women
- American fiction — 19th century — History and criticism
- Women and literature — United States — History — 19th century
- American fiction — Women authors — History and criticism
- Working class women in literature
- Social classes in literature
- Sex role in literature
- Women in literature
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Contents
- I. Inventing the "Mill Girl"
- II. Woman of Industry: The Seamstress in Antebellum America
- III. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Uses of the Seamstress
- IV. Domesticating Women: The Seamstress, the Factory Girl, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Author
ISBN
- 0815336209
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