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Race, work, and desire in American literature, 1860-1930
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- Creator
- Michele Birnbaum
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003
- Physical Details
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- x, 195 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780521824255, 0521824257
- OCLC
- ocm51848360
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-190) and index.
- Introduction: working relations and racial desire -- Dressing down the first lady: Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the scenes, or thirty years a slave and four years in the White House -- Off-color patients in Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy and W. D. Howells's An imperative duty -- 'Alien hands' in Kate Chopin's The awakening -- 'For blood that is not yours': Langston Hughes and the art of patronage -- Epilogue: 'co-workers in the kingdom of culture'
Subjects
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Race in literature.
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Interpersonal relations in literature.
- African Americans in literature.
- Race relations in literature.
- Friendship in literature.
- White people in literature.
- Desire in literature.
- Work in literature.