By the Sweat of the Brow: Literature and Labor in Antebellum America
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Nicholas K. Bromell (Author)
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The spread of industrialism, the emergence of professionalism and the challenge to slavery fueled an anxious debate about the meaning and value of work in 19th-century America. In chapters examining authors such as Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Susan Warner, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, this work argues that American writers generally sensed a deep affinity between the mental labour of writing and such physical labours as blacksmithing, house building, housework, mothering and farming. Combining literary and social history, canonical and non-canonical texts, primary source material and contemporary theory, the author seeks to establish work as an important subject of cultural criticism.
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- Contributor: Nicholas K. Bromell
- Imprint: University of Chicago Press
- ISBN13: 9780226075556
- Number of Pages: 288
- Packaged Dimensions: 17x23x2mm
- Packaged Weight: 454
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Release Date: 1995-07-05
- Binding: Paperback / softback
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