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The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature: Allegory in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction

The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature: Allegory in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction

Weinstein, Cindy

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Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 89

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521054583
ISBN13: 9780521054584
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 29 2008
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book juxtaposes representations of labor in fictional texts with representations of labor in nonfictional texts in order to trace the intersections between aesthetic and economic discourse in nineteenth-century America. This intersection is particularly evident in the debates about symbol and allegory, and Cindy Weinstein contends that allegory during this period was critiqued on precisely the same grounds as mechanized labor. In the course of completing a historical investigation, Weinstein revolutionizes the notion of allegorical narrative, which is exposed as a literary medium of greater depth and consequence than has previously been implied.

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