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ALEWIVES AND FACTORY GIRLS:
REPRESENTATIONS OF WORKING WOMEN (A CRITICAL STUDY)
AND
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (A NOVEL)
by
Katherine Louise Karlin
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(LITERATURE AND CREATIVE WRITING)
August 2009
Copyright 2009 Katherine Louise Karlin
Object Description
| Title | Alewives and factory girls: literary representations of working women |
| Author | Karlin, Katherine Louise |
| Author email | klkarlin@k-state.edu; katherinekarlin@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Literature & Creative Writing |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-06-05 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-07-29 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Lemon, Rebecca |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Bender, Aimee Bitel, Lisa |
| Abstract | “Alewives and Factory Girls” sets out to establish a lineage of representations of working women, examining two periods of rapid social transformation when favorable depictions were included in the discourse. In early modern English drama and early twentieth century American fiction, urbanization gave rise to a class of masterless women, who lived and worked outside of the traditional structures of marriage and family. These literary precedents challenge the essentialist categorization of “women’s literature” as “domestic literature.”; “Freedom of Information” is a novel about four women who were engaged in the American communist movement. Under the Congressional Freedom of Information Act, they uncover their FBI files and endeavor to discover the identity of the agent who betrayed them. The novel traces the development of the communist movement from its engagement with the Spanish Civil War to its decimation after the Khrushchev revelations about Stalin’s cult of personality. |
| Keyword | working women; American communism; working class; feminism; women in Early Modern literature; American realism |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA; Great Britain |
| Coverage date | 1580/1650; 1900/1960 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2411 |
| Rights | Karlin, Katherine Louise |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Karlin-2996 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume23/etd-Karlin-2996.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Full text | ALEWIVES AND FACTORY GIRLS: REPRESENTATIONS OF WORKING WOMEN (A CRITICAL STUDY) AND FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (A NOVEL) by Katherine Louise Karlin A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (LITERATURE AND CREATIVE WRITING) August 2009 Copyright 2009 Katherine Louise Karlin |
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