Labor's Text : The Worker in American Fiction

Laura Hapke

ISBN 10: 0813528801 / ISBN 13: 9780813528809

Published by Univ Of Chicago Behalf Of Rutgers Univ Press Dez 2000, 2000

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Neuware - Labor's Text charts how the worker has been portrayed and often misrepresented in American fiction. Laura Hapke offers hundreds of depictions of wage earners: from fiction on the early artisan 'aristocrats' to the Gilded Age's union-busting novelists to the year 2000's marginalized, apolitical men and women. Whether the authors discussed are pro- or anti-labor, Hapke illuminates the literary, historical, and intellectual contexts in which their fiction was produced and read.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Labor's Text : The Worker in American Fiction
• Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Behalf Of Rutgers Univ Press Dez 2000
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813528801
• ISBN 13: 9780813528809
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 252W x 177H x 27D millimeters 252 millimeters width by 177 millimeters height by 27 millimeters depth
• Weight: 844 grams

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Synopsis

Labor's Text charts how the worker has been portrayed and often misrepresented in American fiction. Laura Hapke offers hundreds of depictions of wage earners: from fiction on the early artisan "aristocrats" to the Gilded Age's union-busting novelists to the year 2000's marginalized, apolitical men and women. Whether the authors discussed are pro- or anti-labor, Hapke illuminates the literary, historical, and intellectual contexts in which their fiction was produced and read.

About the Author

Laura Hapke is a professor of English at Pace University. The winner of two Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Book awards, she is the author of Daughters of the Great Depression: Women, Work, and Fiction in the American 1930s and other books on labor fiction and working-class studies.