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The Factory Girl and the Seamstress Imagining Gender and Class in Nineteenth Century American Fiction
By Amal Amireh
Copyright 2001
160 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
160 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction; Acknowledgments; 1. Inventing the "Mill Girl'; 2. Woman of Industry: The Seamstress in Antebellum America; 3. Nathaniel Hawthorne's use of the Seamstress; 4. Domesticating Women: The Seamstress, the Factory Girl, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Author; Conclusion; Bibliography
Biography
Amal Amireh
