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Working Girls: Fiction, Sexuality, and Modernity
Katherine Mullin
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Description for Working Girls: Fiction, Sexuality, and Modernity
Hardcover. Working Girls offers a cultural and literary history of telegraphists, typists, shop-girls, and barmaids. It argues that these occupations helped to shape a distinctively new identity for emancipated young women, and explores how authors used this to navigate a precarious literary landscape. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Working Girls: Fiction, Sexuality, and Modernity investigates the significance of a new form of sexual identity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. Young women of the lower-middle and working classes were increasingly abandoning domestic service in favour of occupations of contested propriety. They inspired both moral unease and erotic fascination. Working Girls considers representations of four highly glamorised yet controversial types of women worker: telegraphists and typists (in newly-feminised offices), shop assistants (in the new department stores), and barmaids (in the new 'gin palaces' of major British cities). Economically emancipated (more or less) ... Read more
Working Girls: Fiction, Sexuality, and Modernity investigates the significance of a new form of sexual identity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. Young women of the lower-middle and working classes were increasingly abandoning domestic service in favour of occupations of contested propriety. They inspired both moral unease and erotic fascination. Working Girls considers representations of four highly glamorised yet controversial types of women worker: telegraphists and typists (in newly-feminised offices), shop assistants (in the new department stores), and barmaids (in the new 'gin palaces' of major British cities). Economically emancipated (more or less) ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198724841
SKU
V9780198724841
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About Katherine Mullin
Katherine Mullin lectures in Victorian and Modern Literature at the University of Leeds. She is the author of James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and articles on Modernism, late-Victorian fiction, and censorship. She is currently working on an edition of George Gissing's New Grub Street for Oxford World's Classics.
Reviews for Working Girls: Fiction, Sexuality, and Modernity
In exploring the diverse tensions surrounding an emergent female work force, Working Girls ultimately provides a fascinating cultural genealogy of modern postfeminism.
David M Earle, James Joyce Literary Supplement
the coverage of Working Girls is extensive and Mullins book is both erudite and enjoyable to read.
Deborah Wynne, Review of English Studies
David M Earle, James Joyce Literary Supplement
the coverage of Working Girls is extensive and Mullins book is both erudite and enjoyable to read.
Deborah Wynne, Review of English Studies