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By the Sweat of the Brow : Literature and Labor in Antebellum America
By the Sweat of the Brow Literature and Labor in Antebellum America
Author: Nicholas K. Bromell
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 antebellum America. — In chapters on Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Susan Warner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglass, Nicholas Bromell argues that American wri...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226075549
ISBN-10: 0226075540
Publication Date: 2/3/1994
Pages: 288
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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