"To Be an Author": Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1889-1905
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
"To Be an Author": Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1889-1905
By (Author) Joseph R. McElrath
Edited by Robert C. Leitz
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
820.9
Physical Properties
Paperback
266
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
369g
Description
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,
Reviews
"A thoughtful and energetic reader, Mizruchi produces some fine insights, particularly about the novels' production of complicity between their narrators and seemingly non-authorial characters and their thematization of narrative technique as a mode of power."--Nineteenth-Century Literature
