Working girls [electronic resource] : fiction, sexuality, and modernity / Katherine Mullin.
2016
PR468.W6 M86 2016eb
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Title
Working girls [electronic resource] : fiction, sexuality, and modernity / Katherine Mullin.
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Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191792342 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198724841 doi
Call Number
PR468.W6 M86 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.9352209034
Summary
'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.
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'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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 2, 2016).
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