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- Title
Lucy Larcom and the Poetics of Child Labour.
- Authors
Lockard, Joe
- Abstract
A literary criticism of the book "A New England Girlhood (1889)," by Lucy Larcom is presented. It address the autobiographical self-observation on her life as a child worker in a mill and the context representation of child labour in her poem "Weaving." It also mentioned her childhood memories which inform a human right discourse that are connected to the deprivations suffered by children.
- Subjects
NEW England Girlhood, A (Book); LARCOM, Lucy, 1824-1893; CHILD labor in literature; WEAVING (Poem); EARLY memories; CHILDREN'S rights; DEPRIVATION (Psychology); LITERARY criticism; AMERICAN literature
- Publication
English Studies in Canada, 2012, Vol 38, Issue 3/4, p139
- ISSN
0317-0802
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/esc.2013.0007