The Factory Girl and the Seamstress : Imagining Gender and Class in Nineteenth Century American Fiction
by
Amal Amireh
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in American Popular History and Culture
ISBN-10
0815336209
ISBN-13
9780815336204
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 3rd, 2000
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
386 grams
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This book studies the representations of working-class women in canonical and popular American fiction between 1820 and 1870.
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.
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