
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Problem with Labor and the Promise of Leisure
- 2 Hawthorne and the Economics of Allegory
- 3 Melville's Operatives
- 4 Twain in the Man-factory
- 5 The Manikin, the Machine, and the Virgin Mary
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Problem with Labor and the Promise of Leisure
- 2 Hawthorne and the Economics of Allegory
- 3 Melville's Operatives
- 4 Twain in the Man-factory
- 5 The Manikin, the Machine, and the Virgin Mary
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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- The Literature of Labor and the Labors of LiteratureAllegory in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction, pp. i - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995