Books by Lori Merish

Considers the intricate relationship between consumption and womanhood in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Lori Merish establishes working-class women as significant actors within nineteenth-century U.S. literary culture by analyzing previously unexplored archives of working-class women's literature, showing how white, African American, and Mexican American factory workers, seamstresses, domestic workers, and prostitutes understood themselves while forging class identity.