Women, writing, and the industrial revolution
She examines the works of Chartist poets, dialect writers, and two "factory girlpoets who wrote about their experiences in the mills.
Print Book, English, 2001
<<The>> Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore (Md.), 2001
VIII, 325 p. 22 cm
9780801866494, 0801866499
1014522180
Contents: Introduction Chapter 1 A "World Turned Upside Downwards": Men, Dematerialization, and the Disposition-of-England Question Chapter 2 The Fortunate Fall: Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Female Myths of Progress Chapter 3 Frances Trollope, Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, and the Early Industrial Discourse Chapter 4 Nostalgia and the Ideology of Domesticity in Working-Class Literature Conclusion: Past and Present: The Industrial Revolution in a (Victorian) Post-Industrial World