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Revolution, Reform, and Class Conflict in Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron-Mills
<p><em>Life in the Iron-Mills </em>(1861) by Rebecca Harding Davis is a very early example of American fiction that depicts the living and working conditions in a mill town. Although the novella advocates for workers, it does not accurately depict contemporaneous working-class culture. Davis …
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Public Politics, Private God: Political Rhetoric of Religious Morality in Selected American Social Novels
<p>Religion and politics have been intertwined throughout the history of the United States, starting from the Colonial period to the present. In this study, I argue that the manipulative use of certain religious morality under the guise of objectivity and universality is a threat to individual …
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Self-fashioning (Im)Possibilities: A Literary Tapestry of Women at Work in Nineteenth-Century America
This dissertation investigates representations of women's work and the construction of identity in texts written by women between 1840 and 1877. I focus on the literary construction of workingwomen's struggle to find their place in a culture that valorizes women who selflessly devote themselves to …