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• W578029370 abstract "Although not widely taught, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's powerful novel of industrial privation and upper-class privilege, The Silent Partner (1871), is beginning to have considerable importance for students of American literature and society. Phelps's gritty urban verisimilitude has helped revise narratives of rise of literary realism in USA, for instance, testifying to key role played by women in shaping what was formerly thought to be masculine line of realists descending from William Dean Howells. Scholars charting intersections of class and literature have found book interesting, as have feminists, who find Phelps's struggle for respect and meaningful work in shadows of True Womanhood to have considerable significance for their attempts to re-imagine American literary history as a history of feminist movement.1 As of yet, however, no one has fully plumbed manner and moment in which industrial reform, realism, women's writing and feminist movement became enmeshed in such texts in first place.2 In essay that follows, I historicize Silent Partner by reading it within context of class formation adumbrated by Phelps when she alludes to Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor (MBSL Reports) in her original introduction to work.3 Phelps credits initial MBSL Reports with providing both the which go to form this and the ribs of my story(1983, 1, 2). The MBSL Reports are very first government attempt to analyze the Labor Question in USA. They sparked considerable controversy, and were a model for all succeeding bureaus of labor statistics in USA. Written in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1870 and published in Boston in 1871, Phelps's novel shares this key moment in making of American class relations. However, because The Silent Partner has not been read in this specific context, scholars have failed to understand historically distinct class interests that inform both this novel and germinal cross-fertilization of urban realism, industrial reform, and women's writing effected through and around it. When read in conversation with MBSL Reports, Silent Partners evocations of working-class degradation, and working-class unrest, emerge as part of a broader effort to define and protect just-emerging American middle class. Not only do these texts share a distinct cultural moment and work, but also a set of structural likenesses and homologous descriptive strategies. They employ, also, a strikingly similar range of metaphors. Read in dialogue, they speak with considerable frankness of an evolving landscape of class identities that neither text alone possesses language to describe. For instance, by drawing upon, and overtly identifying, MBSL Reports as facts which ... form this fiction, Silent Partner affiliates itself with an ostensibly empirical, official depiction of Massachusetts working class, in one neat stroke borrowing prestige from both reform politics and science. Silent Partner, in turn, employs conventions of mid-nineteenth-century women's to elaborate upon this official version of reality. Its story of friendship between a mill owner's daughter and a factory girl simultaneously reveals workers' miseries and elides positive aspects of working-class life, especially those proletarian alternatives to middle-class cultural norms and power that have been focus of dozens of historical studies in last three decades. Through Silent Partner, range of working-class life open to ofcial investigation narrows. And distinction between what is fact and what is fiction about American workers comes to be defined from a perspective that is decidedly not workers' own. The novel thus imagines a new, social instrumentality for its readership: to confront and manage threat to social order posed by growth, and increasing self-consciousness, of American working class. By time Silent Partner was published in 1871, labor politics in Massachusetts had moved far, far to left of mildly meliorist MBSL, with its tepid mandate to confine its functions to simple matter of collecting, assorting, systematizing . …" @default.
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• W578029370 title "The Facts Which Go to Form this Fiction': Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The 'Silent Partner' and the 'Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics Reports'" @default.
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