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Cloth and clothing provide potent tropes for physical and intellectual forms of self-expression. Drawing on sources ranging from fugitive slave narratives, mill workers' magazines to fiction, poetry, and autobiographies, this book examines the part played by mill workers and formerly enslaved people in this revolution of literary self-expression.

Clothed in Meaning Literature Labor and Cotton

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      Publisher: LUP - University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 8/25/2020 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780472131969, 978-0472131969
      ISBN10: 0472131966
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      Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Social classes

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      Book Synopsis
      Cloth and clothing provide potent tropes for physical and intellectual forms of self-expression. Drawing on sources ranging from fugitive slave narratives, mill workers' magazines to fiction, poetry, and autobiographies, this book examines the part played by mill workers and formerly enslaved people in this revolution of literary self-expression.

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