Carolyn Maibor's Labor Pains: Emerson, Hawthorne, & Alcott on Work, Women, & PDF

By Carolyn Maibor

ISBN-10: 0415803500

ISBN-13: 9780415803502

ISBN-10: 0415967929

ISBN-13: 9780415967921

This ebook explores the significance of labor and its function in defining and constructing the self. Maibor unearths how the writings of Emerson, Hawthorne, and Alcott delve into notions of equality via this emphasis on hard work. In doing so she demanding situations the normal view of Emerson as unconcerned with societal matters, and opens the paintings of Hawthorne and Alcott to new feminist readings.

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