Archives of Labor Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States |
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| Author:
| Merish, Lori |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8223-6322-4 |
| Publication Date: | May 2017 |
| Publisher: | Duke University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $28.95 |
Book Description:
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Lori Merish establishes working-class women as significant actors within nineteenth-century U.S. literary culture by analyzing previously unexplored archives of working-class women's literature, showing how white, African American, and Mexican American factory workers, seamstresses, domestic workers, and prostitutes understood themselves while forging class identity.
Lori Merish establishes working-class women as significant actors within nineteenth-century U.S. literary culture by analyzing previously unexplored archives of working-class women's literature, showing how white, African American, and Mexican American factory workers, seamstresses, domestic workers, and prostitutes understood themselves while forging class identity.