The personal and the political in American working-class literature, 1850-1939 : defining the radical romance /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Cella, Laurie, 1974- author.
Imprint:	Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019] ©2019
Description:	vii, 187 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Innovation and activism in American women's writing Innovation and activism in American women's writing.
Subject:	American fiction -- Women authors -- 19th century -- History and criticism. American fiction -- Women authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Working class writings, American -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Romance fiction, American -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Working class women in literature. Strikes and lockouts in literature.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11951636

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ISBN:	149858120X 9781498581202
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-181) and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Lowell Experiment: Finery, Chastity, and an Emerging Working-Class Culture
2. Maud Matchin: A Working-Class American Beauty
3. Strikers at the Ball: Radical Romances of the Great Shirtwaist Strike
4. Violence and Romance on the Picket Line: Mary Heaton Vorse's Strike! (1930) and Dorothy Myra Page's Gathering Storm (1932)
5. A Violent Gastonia: Images of Female Sexuality in Beyond Desire (1932) and The Shadow Before (1934)
6. Radical Romance in the Piedmont: Olive Tilford Dargan's Gastonia Novels
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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