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Working Women in American Literature, 1865-1950

Working Women in American Literature, 1865-1950

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1498546803
ISBN13: 9781498546805
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jul 7 2020
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Working Women in American Literature, 1865-1950 consists of eight original essays by literary, historical, and multicultural critics on the subject of working women in late-nineteenth- to mid-twentieth-century American literature. The volume examines how the American working woman has been presented, misrepresented, and underrepresented in American realistic and naturalistic literature (1865-1930), and by later authors influenced by realism and naturalism. Points explored include: the historical vocational realities of working women (e.g., factory workers, seamstresses, maids, teachers, writers, prostitutes, etc.); the distortions in literary representations of female work; the ways in which these representations still inform the lives of working women today; and new perspectives from queer theory, immigrant studies, and race and class analyses.

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