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Clothed in Meaning

- Literature, Labor, and Cotton in Nineteenth-Century America

part of the Class: Culture series

About Clothed in Meaning

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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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780472131969
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 318
  • Published:
  • August 24, 2020
  • Dimensions:
  • 152x229x0 mm.
Delivery: 2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: August 2, 2025

Description of Clothed in Meaning

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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