The literature of labor and the labors of literature
Subtitle: allegory in nineteenth-century American fiction
By: Cindy Weinstein
Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture -- 89; Cambridge studies in American literature and culture -- 89.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780521054584
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: Work in literature; American Aesthetics; History and criticism; Labor; Working class in literature; Allegory; American fiction; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-252) and index.
Table of contents: title: The problem with labor and the promise of leisure; title: Hawthorne and the economics of allegory; title: Melville's operatives; title: Twain in the man-factory; title: The manikin, the machine, and the Virgin Mary.