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by Nicholas K. Bromell

Author: Nicholas K. Bromell
Subcategory: History & Criticism
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; 1 edition (June 1, 1995)
Pages: 288 pages
Category: Fiction and Literature
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In this book, Nicholas K. Bromell discusses the ways in which American writers participated in this cultural . Bromell discusses the ways in which American writers participated in this cultural contestation of the nature and meaning of work. 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 discusses the . Deftlycombining 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

In this book, Nicholas K. Deftlycombining 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.

In chapters on Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Susan Warner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglass, Nicholas Bromell argues that American writers generally sensed a deep affinity between the mental labor of writing and such bodily labors a. .

In chapters on Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Susan Warner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglass, Nicholas 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, and farming. Combining literary and social history, canonical and noncanonical texts, primary source material, and contemporary theory, Bromell establishes work as an important subject of cultural criticism. University of Chicago Press.

Nicholas K. Bromell 5: Toward an Ontology of Labor 11: "By the Labor of My Hands Only": The Making and Unmaking of Walden Afterword Notes Index.

5: Toward an Ontology of Labor 11: "By the Labor of My Hands Only": The Making and Unmaking of Walden Afterword Notes Index. Literature and Literary Criticism: American and Canadian Literature.

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Nicholas Knowles Bromell By the Sweat of the Brow: Literature and Labor in Antebellum America.

Nicholas Knowles Bromell. A Professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Nick Bromell writes about the ways ordinary people philosophize as they try to make sense of their lives and conditions. His second, "Tomorrow Never Knows," asks and tries to answer why rock music in the 1960s suddenly became a way of thinking and coping, not just a form of escape and entertainment. By the Sweat of the Brow: Literature and Labor in Antebellum America. by Nicholas K. Bromell.

Bromell, Nicholas K. 1993. Postface: Defining Neoliberalism. In The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, ed. Philip Mirowski and Dieter Phelwe, 417–455. Chicago: Chicago University Press. Cederström, Carl, and Peter Fleming. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Bromell received a BA in Classics and Philosophy from Amherst College and a PhD in.By the Sweat of the Brow: Literature and Labor in Antebellum America (University of Chicago Press, 1992).

Bromell received a BA in Classics and Philosophy from Amherst College and a PhD in English and American Literature from Stanford University. Books: Power, Dignity, Struggle: The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass (Duke University Press: forthcoming 2020). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993: 101. ISBN 0-226-07554-0. Future Perfect: American Science Fiction of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995: 17. ISBN 0-8135-2152-1.

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 writers generally sensed a deep affinity between the mental labor of writing and such bodily labors as blacksmithing, house building, housework, mothering, and farming. Combining literary and social history, canonical and noncanonical texts, primary source material, and contemporary theory, Bromell establishes work as an important subject of cultural criticism.