The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature: Allegory in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series)
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The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature juxtaposes representations of labour in fictional texts and non-fictional texts in order to trace the intersections between aesthetic and economic discourse in nineteenth-century America. Both allegory and the new forms of labour produced a version of personhood that seemed frighteningly flat, a flatness that attacked the substance of the work ethic and, indeed, the very foundations of American...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521470544
ISBN13:9780521470544
Release Date:January 1995
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:284 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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