"Earn It with the Sweat of My Brow": Essential Labor and Survival in The Blithedale Romance.
"Earn It with the Sweat of My Brow-: Essential Labor and Survival in Die Blithedate Romance focuses on the dynamics of class struggle and essential labor within the utopian community in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedate Romance. The article argues that at the center of all of the novel's failure...
| Published in: | Nathaniel Hawthorne Review Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 63 - 84 |
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Pennsylvania State University Press
2021
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