Personal and the Political in American Working Class Literature, - Defining the Radical Romance

This bookexamines the censure of working-class women's leisure activities in public spaces as a condemnation of female identity and agency in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. It explores these activities as first steps toward a unified labor movement.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Lowell Experiment: Finery, Chastity, and an Emerging Working-class Culture
Chapter 2: Maud Matchin: A Working-Class American Beauty in John Hay's The Breadwinners (1896)
Chapter 3: Strikers at the Ball: Radical Romances of the Great Shirtwaist Strike, Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker (1909) and Comrade Yetta (1913)
Chapter 4: Romance on the Picket Line: Mary Heaton Vorse's Strike! (1930) and Dorothy Myra Page's Gathering Storm (1932)
Chapter 5: Violence and Female Sexuality in Sherwood Anderson's Beyond Desire (1932) and William Rollins's The Shadow Before (1934)
Chapter 6: Romance as Redemption in Olive Tilford Dargan's Call Home the Heart (1932), Stone Came Rolling (1935) and Grace Lumpkin's To Make My Bread (1932)
Conclusion
Works Cited

About the author

By Laurie J. C. Cella

Summary

This book examines the censure of working-class women’s leisure activities in public spaces as a condemnation of female identity and agency in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. It explores these activities as first steps toward a unified labor movement.

Product details

• Authors: Laurie Cella, Laurie J C Cella, Laurie J. Cella, Laurie J. C. Cella
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781498581202
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8120-2
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Innovation and Activism in Ame; Innovation and Activism in Ame; Innovation and Activism in American Women's Writing
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls, Literature: history and criticism