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Journal Article
American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 55–82.
Published: 01 March 2018
... authors interpreted factory operatives as women of suspect virtue. I argue that male authors who sexualized female wage earners alleviated their own anxieties about their compromised independence in the industrial marketplace. Male authors fixated on factory women’s sexual identity in an attempt...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 151–177.
Published: 01 March 2005
... is linked to the transgressive affinities of
working women who enact their empowerment as wage earners by
wearing clothes that are perceived to subvert class hierarchies. Like
the Lowell factory women who refuted middle-class women’s efforts
to represent factory girls’ newly found buying power simply...
Journal Article
American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 733–761.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of science to racial inequality, political influence, or social bias, and the neoliberal knowledge economy’s racialization of Asian as the embodiment of professionalization. Though the “textbook Lenin” (and Marx and Mao) may have led Ishii to believe that the factory women would transform oppressive...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 699–728.
Published: 01 December 2005
... England farms and pursue their own wages
as ‘‘factory girlsthereby to secure the financial success of mill owners
and to tempt New England capital away from the whale ships. (Thomas
Dublin, in his study of Lowell factory workers’ letters, notes a prepon-
derance of women citing...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 373–401.
Published: 01 June 2002
... of
republican womanhood for the factory girl (142). As Ruth Bloch ex-
plains, the ideal of republican womanhood that emerged during the
Revolutionary period attributed public significance to women’s pri-
vate virtue, a gesture congruent with the sentimental ideology of true
womanhood. It marked a transition...
Journal Article
American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 527–551.
Published: 01 September 2007
... explains, “and the end of the nineteenth century saw scarcely a
city without its long, high brick building, with its hundreds of rooms,
hundreds of machines, and hundreds of men.” These new factories and
the material progress they represented “satisfied only the wants of the
body.” Thankfully...
Journal Article
American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 723–753.
Published: 01 December 2016
... progress (see Winkler 1972 ). The United States was soon flooded with tales, pamphlets, broadsides, almanacs, songbooks, and other forms of temperance literature warning of the destruction that flows irreversibly from the fatal first sip of alcohol. At the same time, locomotive travel and factory...
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Journal Article
American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 809–812.
Published: 01 December 2020
... for readers a world of literature and performance by laboring women, from factory workers and seamstresses to the working-class dramas and performativity foregrounded and elaborated by E. D. E. N. Southworth in her The Hidden Hand (1859), to the testimonios of women living in Mexican California during...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 29–55.
Published: 01 March 2008
... affluence. They settled in the western part of North
Carolina near Mount Airy, converted to Christianity, married white
women who were also sisters, adopted the surname Bunker, bought
a plantation with slaves, and fathered twenty-two children between
them, two of whom fought...
Journal Article
American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 519–548.
Published: 01 September 2006
... women’s lives and even their bodies
as in tune with the clock, however, possesses in fact a longer and
stranger history. Considerably prior to Lily’s hectic era, young women
had formed one of the first groups of Americans to labor under the
strict clock time of industrial capitalism in the factories...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 471–500.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Molly Robey U.S. women's Holy Land writings—a body of novels, travel narratives, and children's literature—uniquely illustrate Americans' complex and often conflicting imperialist and religious investments in the Near East. U.S. women writers embraced the Holy Land as an extranational domestic...
Journal Article
American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 501–525.
Published: 01 September 2007
... spaces along with the complex interplay of social forces that
result in the victimization of women. These stories thus not only par-
ticipate in the tradition of the American female gothic but also sug-
gest that this genre—and perhaps even the gothic in general—might
American Literature, Volume...
Journal Article
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 865–866.
Published: 01 December 2001
... that the women
factory workers who wrote for the Lowell Offering found their way into author-
ship through the medium of the sketch, laying claim to their own participation
in the refinements of bourgeois privacy, while the more radical among them
invoked the conventions of the sketch to expose...
Journal Article
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 866–868.
Published: 01 December 2001
... Hamilton identifies as ‘‘an explicit evocation and rebuttal of the
middle-class, holiday sketch’’ (61). Similarly, Hamilton finds that the women
factory workers who wrote for the Lowell Offering found their way into author-
ship through the medium of the sketch, laying claim to their own participation...
Journal Article
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 869–870.
Published: 01 December 2001
... that the women
factory workers who wrote for the Lowell Offering found their way into author-
ship through the medium of the sketch, laying claim to their own participation
in the refinements of bourgeois privacy, while the more radical among them
invoked the conventions of the sketch to expose...
Journal Article
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 870–871.
Published: 01 December 2001
... that the women
factory workers who wrote for the Lowell Offering found their way into author-
ship through the medium of the sketch, laying claim to their own participation
in the refinements of bourgeois privacy, while the more radical among them
invoked the conventions of the sketch to expose...
Journal Article
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 871–872.
Published: 01 December 2001
... evocation and rebuttal of the
middle-class, holiday sketch’’ (61). Similarly, Hamilton finds that the women
factory workers who wrote for the Lowell Offering found their way into author-
ship through the medium of the sketch, laying claim to their own participation
in the refinements of bourgeois privacy...
Journal Article
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 872–873.
Published: 01 December 2001
... that the women
factory workers who wrote for the Lowell Offering found their way into author-
ship through the medium of the sketch, laying claim to their own participation
in the refinements of bourgeois privacy, while the more radical among them
invoked the conventions of the sketch to expose...
Journal Article
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 873–874.
Published: 01 December 2001
... that the women
factory workers who wrote for the Lowell Offering found their way into author-
ship through the medium of the sketch, laying claim to their own participation
in the refinements of bourgeois privacy, while the more radical among them
invoked the conventions of the sketch to expose...
Journal Article
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 874–875.
Published: 01 December 2001
... that the women
factory workers who wrote for the Lowell Offering found their way into author-
ship through the medium of the sketch, laying claim to their own participation
in the refinements of bourgeois privacy, while the more radical among them
invoked the conventions of the sketch to expose...
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