An Idyl of Work

An Idyl of Work PDF Author: Lucy Larcom
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Story in verse of women's factory life in Lowell, Mass., about 1845.

An Idyl of Work

An Idyl of Work PDF Author: Lucy Larcom
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Story in verse of women's factory life in Lowell, Mass., about 1845.

Appletons' Journal

Appletons' Journal PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 852

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Working Women, Literary Ladies

Working Women, Literary Ladies PDF Author: Sylvia J. Cook
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190296275
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Working Women, Literary Ladies explores the simultaneous entry of working-class women in the United States into wage-earning factory labor and into opportunities for mental and literary development. It is the first book to examine the fascinating exchange between the work and literary spheres for laboring women in the rapidly industrializing America of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As women entered the public sphere as workers, their opportunities for intellectual growth expanded, even as those same opportunities were often tightly circumscribed by the factory owners who were providing them. These developments, both institutional and personal, opened up a range of new possibilities for working-class women that profoundly affected women of all classes and the larger social fabric. Cook examines the extraordinary and diverse literary productions of these working women, ranging from their first New England magazine of belles lettres, The Lowell Offering, to Emma Goldman's periodical, Mother Earth; from Lucy Larcom's epic poem of female factory life, An Idyl of Work, to Theresa Malkiel's fictional account of sweatshop workers in New York, The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker. This vital new book traces the hopes and tensions generated by the expectations of working-class women as they created a wholly new way of being alive in the world.

Working in America

Working in America PDF Author: Catherine Reef
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108141
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 513

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Presents an overview of the history of American labor using excerpts from primary source documents, short biographies of influential people, and more.

Snow-bound

Snow-bound PDF Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Who Killed American Poetry?

Who Killed American Poetry? PDF Author: Karen L. Kilcup
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472131559
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Throughout the 19th century, American poetry was a profoundly populist literary form. It circulated in New England magazines and Southern newspapers; it was read aloud in taverns, homes, and schools across the country. Antebellum reviewers envisioned poetry as the touchstone democratic genre, and their Civil War–era counterparts celebrated its motivating power, singing poems on battlefields. Following the war, however, as criticism grew more professionalized and American literature emerged as an academic subject, reviewers increasingly elevated difficult, dispassionate writing and elite readers over their supposedly common counterparts, thereby separating “authentic” poetry for intellectuals from “popular” poetry for everyone else.\ Conceptually and methodologically unique among studies of 19th-century American poetry, Who Killed American Poetry? not only charts changing attitudes toward American poetry, but also applies these ideas to the work of representative individual poets. Closely analyzing hundreds of reviews and critical essays, Karen L. Kilcup tracks the century’s developing aesthetic standards and highlights the different criteria reviewers used to assess poetry based on poets’ class, gender, ethnicity, and location. She shows that, as early as the 1820s, critics began to marginalize some kinds of emotional American poetry, a shift many scholars have attributed primarily to the late-century emergence of affectively restrained modernist ideals. Mapping this literary critical history enables us to more readily apprehend poetry’s status in American culture—both in the past and present—and encourages us to scrutinize the standards of academic criticism that underwrite contemporary aesthetics and continue to constrain poetry’s appeal. Who American Killed Poetry? enlarges our understanding of American culture over the past two hundred years and will interest scholars in literary studies, historical poetics, American studies, gender studies, canon criticism, genre studies, the history of criticism, and affect studies. It will also appeal to poetry readers and those who enjoy reading about American cultural history.

The Traffic in Poems

The Traffic in Poems PDF Author: Meredith L. McGill
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813542308
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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The transatlantic crossing of people and goods shaped nineteenth-century poetry in surprising ways. This book focuses on poetic depictions of exile, slavery, immigration, and citizenship and explores the often asymmetrical traffic between British and American poetic cultures.

Works

Works PDF Author: Friedrich Schiller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Emily Dickinson and the Labor of Clothing

Emily Dickinson and the Labor of Clothing PDF Author: Daneen Wardrop
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1584657804
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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A history of nineteenth-century fashion through the works of Emily Dickinson

Publisher's catalogues

Publisher's catalogues PDF Author: Houghton, Mifflin co
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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