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catalog abstract "Record numbers of women began entering the American labor force in the late 1800s, their experiences composed largely of the drudgery of the factory or the monotony of the sales floor. This feminine mass entry into the workplace sparked thirty-five years of debate, with proponents protesting employers' "moral corruption" of women and detractors arguing for a return to woman's "proper" sphere, the home - evidence of the late-Victorian desire to regulate female sexuality. Authors of fiction were quick to respond: Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, O. Henry, Theodore Dreiser, Anzia Yezierska - these and others portrayed working girls in forms as diverse as tenement tales, labor romances, and novels of upward mobility. By joining the period debate about the working girl, her literary imaginers helped shape it. While modern treatments of labor fiction, including those by feminist scholars, have largely ignored these portrayals, Tales of the. Working' Girl does not. Reevaluating both well-known and forgotten texts, this new study by Laura Hapke examines the myriad ways in which the working girl was envisioned by considering the artistic goals and strategies of those who depicted her. Hapke explores to what extent writers acknowledged women's own responses to the controversy, scrutinizes differences in male and female authors' portrayals, and traces the evolution of the working girl as fictional heroine from. The slum melodramas of the 1890s to the strike fiction of the 1910s to the economic ascension novels of the 1920s. Marked by lucid prose and graced by historical photographs and illustrations, Tales of the Working Girl is an important contribution to women's studies, American studies, and labor history.".
catalog contributor b3958571.
catalog created "c1992.".
catalog date "1992".
catalog date "c1992.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
catalog description "1. Enter the working girls: the debate on women's labor -- 2. Regulating chastity: masculine tenement fiction -- 3. Ladies in disguise: feminine cross-class fiction -- 4. Defenders of her life: O. Henry and Dreiser -- 5. Comrades or helpmeets?: female militance in strike decade fiction -- 6. Upward struggles: fictions of feminine mobility -- 7. Conclusion.".
catalog description "Authors of fiction were quick to respond: Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, O. Henry, Theodore Dreiser, Anzia Yezierska - these and others portrayed working girls in forms as diverse as tenement tales, labor romances, and novels of upward mobility. By joining the period debate about the working girl, her literary imaginers helped shape it. While modern treatments of labor fiction, including those by feminist scholars, have largely ignored these portrayals, Tales of the.".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-157) and index.".
catalog description "Record numbers of women began entering the American labor force in the late 1800s, their experiences composed largely of the drudgery of the factory or the monotony of the sales floor. This feminine mass entry into the workplace sparked thirty-five years of debate, with proponents protesting employers' "moral corruption" of women and detractors arguing for a return to woman's "proper" sphere, the home - evidence of the late-Victorian desire to regulate female sexuality.".
catalog description "The slum melodramas of the 1890s to the strike fiction of the 1910s to the economic ascension novels of the 1920s. Marked by lucid prose and graced by historical photographs and illustrations, Tales of the Working Girl is an important contribution to women's studies, American studies, and labor history.".
catalog description "Working' Girl does not. Reevaluating both well-known and forgotten texts, this new study by Laura Hapke examines the myriad ways in which the working girl was envisioned by considering the artistic goals and strategies of those who depicted her. Hapke explores to what extent writers acknowledged women's own responses to the controversy, scrutinizes differences in male and female authors' portrayals, and traces the evolution of the working girl as fictional heroine from.".
catalog extent "xvii, 167 p. :".
catalog hasFormat "Tales of the working girl.".
catalog identifier "0805788557 (alk. paper)".
catalog identifier "0805788603 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
catalog isFormatOf "Tales of the working girl.".
catalog isPartOf "Twayne's literature & society series ; no. 2".
catalog issued "1992".
catalog issued "c1992.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International,".
catalog relation "Tales of the working girl.".
catalog spatial "United States".
catalog subject "813/.5209352042 20".
catalog subject "American fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
catalog subject "Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 Criticism and interpretation.".
catalog subject "Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 Criticism and interpretation.".
catalog subject "Henry, O., 1862-1910 Criticism and interpretation.".
catalog subject "Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 Criticism and interpretation.".
catalog subject "PS374.W6 H36 1992".
catalog subject "Riis, Jacob A., 1849-1914 Criticism and interpretation.".
catalog subject "Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 Criticism and interpretation.".
catalog subject "Women and literature United States History 19th century.".
catalog subject "Women and literature United States History 20th century.".
catalog subject "Women and literature United States History.".
catalog subject "Work in literature.".
catalog subject "Working class women in literature.".
catalog tableOfContents "1. Enter the working girls: the debate on women's labor -- 2. Regulating chastity: masculine tenement fiction -- 3. Ladies in disguise: feminine cross-class fiction -- 4. Defenders of her life: O. Henry and Dreiser -- 5. Comrades or helpmeets?: female militance in strike decade fiction -- 6. Upward struggles: fictions of feminine mobility -- 7. Conclusion.".
catalog title "Tales of the working girl : wage-earning women in American literature, 1890-1925 / Laura Hapke.".
catalog type "text".