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Labor's Text : The Worker in American Fiction /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2001]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Whose plot is it anyway?
- 1. Workers in the wings : antebellum fictions
- 2. I'm looking through you : working men from status quo to knights of labor fiction
- 3. Labor's ladies : work fiction and true women from antebellum Lowell through the Gilded Age
- 4. Taking to their streets : ethnic cultures and labor texts in the sociological 1890s
- 5. Beastmen and labor experts : fiction and the problem of authority from 1900 to 1917
- 6. Facing the unwomanly : sweatshop and sex shop in progressive era labor fiction
- 7. The hungary eye : desire and disaffection in 1920s labor fiction
- 8. From Black folk to working class : African American labor fiction between the World Wars
- 9. Heroic at last : Depression era fiction
- 10. What war your crime? : representing labor in the HUAC era
- 11. The usable past : jobs, myths, and three racial-ethnic literatures of the Civil Rights era
- 12. Working-class twilight : White labor texts of the Civil Rights and Vietnam decades
- Conclusion : Everything old is new again : working through class in the literary 1990s.