Life in the Iron Mills
Amerikaanse roman uit 1861
- Schrijfster: Rebecca Harding Davis (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman, sociale roman
- Taal: Engels
- Eerste druk: 1861
- Heruitgave: The Feminist Press
- Verschijnt: 18 augustus 2020
- Omvang: 256 pagina’s
- Uitgave: Paperback
Flaptekst van de roman van Rebecca Harding Davis
Originally published in 1861 in the Atlantic Monthly, “Life in the Iron Mills” remains a classic of proletarian literature that paints a bleak and incisive portrait of nineteenth-century industrial America. Rebecca Harding Davis was one of the first writers to depict a working class that was exploited and exhausted as capitalism’s mills and factories destroyed both the natural environment and the human spirit.
Davis’s work was first recovered in the 1970s by the Feminist Press and writer Tillie Olsen, and then expanded in the 1980s to be the most comprehensive collection of her work to date. This reissued edition includes an updated critical introduction, and shares a uniquely prescient capitalist critique with a new generation.