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The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature - Allegory in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (Hardcover, New)
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The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature - Allegory in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
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The Literature of Labour and the Labours of Literature juxtaposes
representations of labour in fictional texts with representations
of labour in non-fictional texts in order to trace the
intersections between aesthetic and economic discourse in
19th-century America. Both allegory and the new forms of labour
produced a version of personhood that seemed frighteningly flat, a
flatness that attacked the substance of the work ethic, and,
indeed, the very foundations of American individualism. Using this
contextualised model of allegory, Weinstein argues that texts by
Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and Adams are best understood both as
allegories of labour (that is, the allegorical representations of
the nature and cost of being a labouring being) and labours of
allegory (that is, the visibility of the authors work of
representation). Weinstein revolutionizes the notion of allegorical
narrative, which is exposed as a literary medium of greater depth
and consequence than has previously been implied a working
authorial vehicle for engaged and at times socially turbulent
thought.
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