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Author Elam, Michele.

Title Race, work, and desire in American literature, 1860-1930 / Michele Birnbaum.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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 Moore Stacks  PS228.R32 B57 2003    Available  ---
Description x, 195 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 138
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 138.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-190) and index.
Contents 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'.
Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Race in literature.
Race in literature.
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Interpersonal relations in literature.
Interpersonal relations in literature.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Friendship in literature.
Friendship in literature.
White people in literature.
White people in literature.
Desire in literature.
Desire in literature.
Work in literature.
Work in literature.
ISBN 0521824257