The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature: Allegory in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction

✍ Scribed by Cindy Weinstein

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 283
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book juxtaposes representations of labor in fictional texts with representations of labor in nonfictional texts in order to trace the intersections between aesthetic and economic discourse in nineteenth-century America. This intersection is particularly evident in the debates about symbol and allegory, and Cindy Weinstein contends that allegory during this period was critiqued on precisely the same grounds as mechanized labor. In the course of completing a historical investigation, Weinstein revolutionizes the notion of allegorical narrative, which is exposed as a literary medium of greater depth and consequence than has previously been implied.

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