Authors: Rebecca Harding Davis, Cecelia Tichi
ISBN-13: 9780312133603, ISBN-10: 031213360X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Date Published: August 1997
Edition: 1st Edition
This edition reprints the text of Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills together with a broad selection of thematically arranged historical and cultural documents that open up the novella to the consideration of a range of social and cultural issues vital to Davis's ninteenth century. Special attention is given to nineteenth century American discussions of work and social class, moral and social reform, the development of American art and industry, and the position of the woman writer. A general introduction providing historical and cultural background, a chronology of Davis's life and times, an introduction to each thematic group of documents, headnotes, extensive annotations, a generous selection of illustrations, and a selected bibliography make this volume the definitive scholarly edition of this classic work of industrial fiction.
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Pt. 1 | Life in the Iron-Mills: The Complete Text | 1 |
Pt. 2 | Life in the Iron-Mills: Cultural Contexts | 75 |
1 | Work and Class | 77 |
"The Village Blacksmith" | 83 | |
"That Aristocracy May Be Engendered by Manufactures" | 85 | |
"Iron Interests of Wheeling" | 88 | |
"Pittsburg" | 92 | |
Senate Testimony from Iron Foundry Proprietor | 97 | |
Senate Testimony from Iron Puddler and Union Leader | 103 | |
Senate Testimony from Workers of Color | 114 | |
Senate Testimony from Grand Secretary of the Knights of Labor | 123 | |
"March of the Rolling-Mill Men" (song) | 131 | |
"The Shoofly" (song) | 133 | |
"A Song for Occupations" | 136 | |
From "A Rhymed Lesson" | 143 | |
"Without and Within" | 146 | |
From The Gospel of Wealth | 147 | |
"Sewing Machines" | 156 | |
"The Working-Girls of New York" | 157 | |
From Loom and Spindle | 159 | |
"Factory Life - Romance and Reality" | 169 | |
"My Experience as a Factory Operative" | 172 | |
"Factory Girl's Reverie" | 174 | |
"The Tartarus of Maids" | 176 | |
2 | Social Reform and the Promise of the Dawn | 203 |
From "The Laboring Classes" | 209 | |
From "American Civilization" | 220 | |
"Practical Hints" | 221 | |
From The Dangerous Classes of New York | 226 | |
"In Soho on Saturday Night" (song) | 244 | |
"Perils - Immigration" | 246 | |
"The Anglo-Saxon and the World's Future" | 250 | |
Senate Testimony on the Kitchen Garden Movement | 255 | |
From Ten Nights in a Bar-Room | 259 | |
"The Quaker of the Olden Time" | 271 | |
"The Quaker Settlement" (From Uncle Tom's Cabin) | 272 | |
From Looking Backward: 2000-1887 | 274 | |
3 | Art and Artists | 293 |
"An Inquiry into the Art-Conditions and Prospects of America" | 299 | |
From Art Thoughts | 303 | |
"Hints to American Artists" | 308 | |
From Conversations in a Studio | 312 | |
"The Stewart Art Gallery" | 315 | |
"The Process of Sculpture" | 317 | |
"The Greek Slave" | 319 | |
"A Sculptor's Studio" (From The Marble Faun) | 320 | |
From Roderick Hudson | 326 | |
Senate Testimony on the Arts and Art Education in the United States | 334 | |
Senate Testimony on Industrial Art Schools for Women | 337 | |
4 | Women and Writing: The Public Platform | 357 |
Letter to George D. Ticknor | 363 | |
From "The Great Lawsuit" | 365 | |
From St. Elmo | 372 | |
"Literary Women" | 384 | |
From Ruth Hall | 393 | |
From A New England Girlhood | 396 | |
From Little Women | 408 | |
From Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe | 424 | |
Bibliography | 428 |