Working Girls
Subtitle: Fiction, Sexuality, and Modernity
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jul 05, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780198724841
Description: 'Working Girls' offers a cultural and literary history of telegraphists, typists, shop-girls, and barmaids. It argues that these occupations helped to shape a distinctively new identity for emancipated young women, and explores how authors used this to navigate a precarious literary landscape.
Notes: Source title: Working Girls: Fiction, Sexuality, and Modernity