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100 1 $aBromell, Nicholas Knowles.
245 10 $aBy the sweat of the brow :$bliterature and labor in antebellum America /$cNicholas K. Bromell.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c1993.
300 $aix, 278 pages ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 245-267) and index.
505 0 $aManual Labor and the Problem of Literary Representation -- The Meaning and Demeaning of Manual Labor at the Exhibitions of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association -- The Erotics of Labor in Meoville's Redburn -- Naturalized Labor and Natural History in Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers -- Women Carved of Oak and Korl: The female body as the Site of gendered Labor in Hawthorne and Davis -- The Labored Discourse of Domesticity -- Maternal Labor in the Work of "Literary Domestics": Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Susan Warner -- Literary Composition as Maternal Labor in Uncle Tom's Cabin -- The Meanings of Work and Song in Antebellum Slavery -- Slavery, Work, and Song in Frederick Douglass's Autobiographies -- "By the Labor of My Hands Only": The Making and Unmaking of Walden.
520 $aThe spread of industrialism, the emergence of professionalism, the challenge to slavery - these and other developments fueled an anxious debate about work in antebellum America. In this book, Nicholas K. Bromell discusses the ways in which American writers participated in this cultural contestation of the nature and meaning of work. In chapters on Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Susan Warner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglass, Bromell shows how these writers not only scrutinized work - be it factory labor, agriculture, maternal labor, or slave labor - but also reflected upon its relation to their own work of writing. Bromell argues that American writers generally sensed a deep affinity between the mental labor of writing and such bodily labors as blacksmithing, house building, housework, mothering, field labor, growing beans, and so on. Nevertheless, writers resisted identifying their labor as purely or simply bodily, both because society placed mental and spiritual labor at the top of its scale of values and because the body was so often the site of gender or racial subjugation. Bromell also makes important contributions to three areas of nineteenth-century social history. He probes the period's conflicting ideas of mothers as both spiritual "angels of the house" and ineluctably embodied laborers in the home. Using as an example the exhibitions of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, he discusses the advent of an industrial ideology that sought to devalue the meaning of skilled manual labor. Finally, he suggests that, paradoxically, slaves were sometimes able to find in their labor a mode of self-actualization within slavery. Deftly combining literary and social history, canonical and noncanonical texts, primary source material and contemporary theory, By the Sweat of the Brow establishes work as an important subject of cultural criticism. At the same time, it contributes to discussions of race, gender, and the body in American literary studies.
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