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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
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.
Series Information: Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture
Series Information: Garland Studies in American Popular History and Culture
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