Archives Of Labor: Working-Class Women And Literary Culture In The Antebellum United States - 9780822362999

Lori Merish establishes working-class women as significant actors within nineteenth-century U.S. literary culture by analyzing previously unexplored archives of working-class women's literature, showing how white, African American, and Mexican American factory workers, seamstresses, domestic workers, and prostitutes understood themselves while forging class identity.

• | Author: Lori Merish
• | Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• | Publication Date: May 12, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 328 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 0822362996
• | ISBN-13: 9780822362999