Love and the Working Class: The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans

2025/06/30 by E. George Payne · 1 voice
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Race, History, and American Society #Literature: history, themes, analysis

paper · doi:10.1080/03612759.2025.2515652

openalex publication_date 2025/06/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15

Abstract

“I an going to write to you just as I would talkit if I was with you,” scribbled a farmhand to his girlfriend (41). And as Karen Lystra demonstrates, thousands of other working-class people did the...

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