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By the Sweat of the Brow: Literature and Labor in Antebellum America

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By the Sweat of the Brow: Literature and Labor in Antebellum America - Bromell, Nicholas K
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The spread of industrialism, the emergence of professionalism and the challenge to slavery fueled an anxious debate about the meaning and value of work in 19th-century America. In chapters examining authors such as Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Susan Warner, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, this work argues that American writers generally sensed a deep affinity between the mental labour of writing and such physical labours as blacksmithing, house building, housework, mothering and farming ...

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By the Sweat of the Brow: Literature and Labor in Antebellum America 1995, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226075556

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By the Sweat of the Brow: Literature and Labor in Antebellum America 1994, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226075549

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