| Description |
1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Princeton Legacy Library
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Princeton legacy library.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgments ; Editorial Note ; INTRODUCTION; PART I Cable's Protege in 1889-1891 An ""Insider"" Views the Negro Question; PART II A Dream Deferred, 1891-1896 The Businessman Prevails; PART III Page's Protege in 1897-1899 The Remergence of the Artist and Prophet Artist and Prophet; PART IV The Professional Novelist of 1899-1902 Pursuit of the Dream; PART V Discontent in 1903-1904 A Turn to Argumentative Prose ; PART VI The Quest Renewed, 1904-1905 Argumentative Art for an Indifferent Readership; INDEX. |
| Summary |
Collected in this volume are the 1889--1905 letters of one of the first African-American literary artists to cross the ""color line"" into the de facto segregated American publishing industry of the turn of the century. Selected for inclusion are those chronicling the rise of Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932), an attorney and businessman in Cleveland, Ohio, who achieved prominence as a novelist, short story writer, essayist, and lecturer despite the obstacles faced by a man of color during the ""Jim Crow"" period. In his insightful commentaries on his own situation, Chesnutt provides as well. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932 -- Correspondence.
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Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932. |
| Genre/Form |
Correspondence.
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| Subject |
Novelists, American -- 19th century -- Correspondence.
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Novelists, American. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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African American novelists -- Correspondence.
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African American novelists. |
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African Americans -- Social conditions.
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African Americans -- Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Records and correspondence.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Personal correspondence.
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Personal correspondence.
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| Added Author |
McElrath, Joseph R., editor.
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Leitz, Robert C., 1944- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Chesnutt, Charles W. "To be an author" : letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1889-1905. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1997] xv, 248 pages ; 25 cm 9780691606613 |
| ISBN |
9781400864485 (electronic book) |
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1400864488 (electronic book) |
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0691036683 (cl ; acid-free paper) |
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9780691036687 |
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0691606617 |
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9780691606613 |
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