| The Factory Girl and the Seamstress: Imagining Gender and Class in Nineteenth Century American Fiction Contributor(s): Amireh, Amal (Author) |
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ISBN: 0815336209 ISBN-13: 9780815336204 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2000 Annotation: This book studies the representations of working-class women in canonical and popular American fiction between 1820 and 1870. These representations have been invisible in nineteenth century American literary and cultural studies due to the general view that antebellum writers did not engage with their society's economic and social relaities. 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. These fictional representations were influenced by, and contributed to, an important but understudied cultural debate about wage labor, working women, and class. (Ph.D. dissertation, Boston University, 1997; revised with new preface, bibliography, and index) |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 813.309 |
| LCCN: 00034090 |
| Series: Garland Studies in American Popular History and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 5.64" W x 8.98" (0.82 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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| Publisher Description: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |