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Melville's "factory girls": feminizing the future.(femininity in the works of Herman Melville)(Critical Essay)

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From: Studies in American Fiction
Date: 20030322
Author:Allen, Tom

Of a sudden, the Factories burst upon him, or their windows did,--hundreds of bright windows, illuminated every night in honor of Toil,--and which neither the darkness of night, nor the wilderness of the storm, could obscure, and which never bent or blinked before the rage and violence around. The Factories, and factory life,--how it glowed at that moment to his eye! And even his own ideal notions thereof were more than transfigured before him, and he envied the girls, some of whom he knew, who, through that troubled winter night, were tending their looms as in the warmth, beauty, ...

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