Love and the Working Class: The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans

by Karen Lystra

Love and the Working Class is a unique look at the emotions of hard-living, nineteenth-century Americans who were often on the cusp of literacy. These laboring folk highly valued letters and, however difficult it was, wrote to stay connected to those they loved. This book displays the personal expression of factory hands, manual laborers, peddlers, coopers, carpenters, lumbermen, miners, tanners, haulers, tailors, seamstresses, laundresses, domestics,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197514227
• ISBN13: 9780197514221
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"