Factory Girl and the Seamstress
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A01=Amal Amireh
American social fiction
antebellum literature
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Blithedale Romance
Brook Farm
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Christmas Banquet
class identity formation
Country Maiden
Domestic Fiction
Drowne's Wooden Image
Drowne’s Wooden Image
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Eyes Bright
Factory Girl
Fanny Fern
Female Wage Labor
Fireman
gender roles analysis
Hand Wheel
Hester Prynne
industrialization impact
Middle Class Heroine
Mill Girl
Miscellaneous Essays
Nineteenth Century American Fiction
nineteenth century labor narratives
Nineteenth Century Women Novelists
Pemberton Mill
Poor Rich Man
Scarlet Letter
Silas Foster
Slop Shops
Veiled Lady
working women history
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780815336204
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 03 Aug 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Amal Amireh
