Industrial Gothic Workers, Exploitation Urbanization in Transatlantic Nineteenth

The Gothic is more than just maidens-in-peril fleeing supernatural villains in another age. Historically, it was a form used to depict and critique the dangerous labour conditions faced by workers during the Industrial Revolution.

Info autore

Bridget M. Marshall is professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and the author of Industrial Gothic: Workers, Exploitation and Urbanization in Transatlantic Nineteenth-Century Literature, also published by the University of Wales Press.

Riassunto

The Gothic is more than just maidens-in-peril fleeing supernatural villains in another age. Historically, it was a form used to depict and critique the dangerous labour conditions faced by workers during the Industrial Revolution.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Bridget M. Marshall, Marshall Bridget M.
• Editore: University of Wales Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 30.06.2021
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata
• EAN: 9781786837707
• ISBN: 978-1-78683-770-7
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Serie: Gothic Literary Studies
• Categorie: Workers, Literature, English, Gothic, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, exploitation, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Century, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history, Industrial, Urbanization, Transatlantic, Nineteenth