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

By Cindy Weinstein

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0521054583, 9780521054584
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8381880 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Edition
1
Pages
284\283
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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