Ahearn, Marie Lucy. The Rhetoric of Work and Vocation in Some Popular Northern Writings before 1860.Dissertation.Brown University, 1965.
 

            Comment:   How mid-19th century work is represented in fiction.   How workers saw their

              identity.  How they took part in the myth of vocation.  This may be viewed on microfilm at 

             a university library or ordered by Interlibrary Loan.
 

Antle, Emily Newberry. Novels of Vocation: Unlikely Parallels: the Fiction of Nathanael
West and Flannery O'Connor. Dissertation: Thesis (M.A.)University of Louisville, 1970.
Reproduction: Photocopy. Ann Arbor,
Mich. University Microfilms, 1990.
 

            Comment:  How does work relate to the more spiritual concept of Called or vocation in the works
            of two modern novelists? Could model asking similar questions of other writers.
 

Butzow, Carol M., and Butzow, John W.,  The World of Work through Children's Literature an
Integrated Approach.  Greenwood Village, Colo.: Teacher Ideas Press, 2002.
 

            Comment:  This guide to children’s literature is an approach for those who prefer this

            genre.  Valid issues include how well children’s lit. prepares readers for the careers

            depicted in children’s texts. 
 

Danon, Ruth.  "Wretched aspiring discontented me" Work in the English Novel:

the Myth of Vocation.Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble, 1986.
 

            Comment:  What constituted the myth of vocation historically and how did the myth play
            out  in fiction?  How did belief in the myth of vocation affect people's ability to act on their
            own conditions? 
 

Vicinus, Martha. The Industrial Muse: a Study of Nineteenth Century British Working-class
            Literature.  London: Croom Helm, 1974.
 

            Comment:  Some chapters could support a claim about the working people

            In—say—Dickens’ novels.  For example: “Literature as propaganda : the coal 

            miners' unions, 1825-45,” “Chartist poetry and fiction : the development
            of a class-based literature,” “The portrayal of the working man.”