A01=Nicholas K. Bromell
Author_Nicholas K. Bromell
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226075556
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 17 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 1995
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The spread of industrialism, the emergence of professionalism and the challenge to slavery fueled an anxious debate about the meaning and value of work in 19th-century America. In chapters examining authors such as Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Susan Warner, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, this work argues that American writers generally sensed a deep affinity between the mental labour of writing and such physical labours as blacksmithing, house building, housework, mothering and farming. Combining literary and social history, canonical and non-canonical texts, primary source material and contemporary theory, the author seeks to establish work as an important subject of cultural criticism.
