‘일’과 젠더: 쏘로우의 「월든」과 루이자 메이 올코트의 「일」
‘Work’ and Gender: Thoreau's Walden and Louisa May Alcott's Work
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This paper attempts to compare Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (1854) and Louisa May Alcott’s Work (1873) and to find out the two authors’ views of ‘work.’ Both the narrator of Walden and the protagonist of Work seem to quest for the solution to the same problem that challenges them: the masculine ideology of “competitive individualism” which, according to David Leverenz, prevailed in the nineteenth-century white middle-class American society. Thoreau and Alcott were minorities in the American society, even though they belonged to the same middle class, in that they defied the middle-class aspirations for material success. Thoreau, a graduate of Harvard University, desisted from getting a profitable job, unlike his colleagues who participated in the capitalist market economy after college graduation, and instead he withdrew from the society and chose to live an experimental life in the Walden by living simply with the least expenses. To the contrary, Christie, the heroine of Work, rather aspires to enter the public sphere so as to get an independent living against the ideology of domesticity which she is supposed to hold as a member of the white middle-class women of the nineteenth century. However, her concept of ‘work’ is also different from that of the enterprising entrepreneurship of the white middle class. Even though they were differently situated in terms of gender, Thoreau and Alcott deal with the issue of ‘work’ very attentively in Walden and Work, and I want to find what kind of different notions of work they have and what kind of alternative ways of living they suggest through their works.
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This paper attempts to compare Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (1854) and Louisa May Alcott’s Work (1873) and to find out the two authors’ views of ‘work.’ Both the narrator of Walden and the protagonist of Work seem to quest for the solution to the same problem that challenges them: the masculine ideology of “competitive individualism” which, according to David Leverenz, prevailed in the nineteenth-century white middle-class American society. Thoreau and Alcott were minorities in the American society, even though they belonged to the same middle class, in that they defied the middle-class aspirations for material success. Thoreau, a graduate of Harvard University, desisted from getting a profitable job, unlike his colleagues who participated in the capitalist market economy after college graduation, and instead he withdrew from the society and chose to live an experimental life in the Walden by living simply with the least expenses. To the contrary, Christie, the heroine of Work, rather aspires to enter the public sphere so as to get an independent living against the ideology of domesticity which she is supposed to hold as a member of the white middle-class women of the nineteenth century. However, her concept of ‘work’ is also different from that of the enterprising entrepreneurship of the white middle class. Even though they were differently situated in terms of gender, Thoreau and Alcott deal with the issue of ‘work’ very attentively in Walden and Work, and I want to find what kind of different notions of work they have and what kind of alternative ways of living they suggest through their works.
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