Factory fiction : Lowell Mill women and the romance of labor -- Factory labor and literary aesthetics : the Lowell Mill girl, popular fiction, and the Proletarian grotesque -- Narrating female dependency : the sentimental seamstress and the erotics of labor reform -- Harriet Wilson's Our nig and the labor of race -- Hidden hands : E.D.E.N. Southworth and working-class performance -- Writing Mexicana workers : race, labor, and the western frontier -- Postscript: Looking for antebellum workingwomen.
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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.
JSTOR
22573/ctv114f8x8
Archives of labor.
9780822362999
American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
Literature and society-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Popular culture-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Race in literature.
Social classes in literature.
Women textile workers-- Massachusetts-- Lowell-- History-- 19th century.
Working class women in literature.
Working class women-- United States-- Social conditions-- 19th century.