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Disaffected : the cultural politics of unfeeling in nineteenth-century America / Xine Yao.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yao, Xine, 1985- author.
- Series:
- Perverse modernities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.
- Literature and society.
- United States.
- History.
- Race in literature.
- Affect (Psychology) in literature.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
- Sentimentalism in literature.
- Emotions in literature.
- African Americans in literature.
- Asians in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 291 pages).
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, [2021]
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- The Babo problem : white sentimentalism and unsympathetic Blackness in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno
- Feeling otherwise : Martin R. Delany, Black-Indigenous counterintimacies, and the possibility of a new world
- The queer frigidity of professionalism : white women doctors, the struggle for rights, and the marriage plot
- Objective passionless : Black women doctors and dispassionate strategies of uplifting love
- Oriental inscrutability : Sui Sin Far, Chinese faces, and the modern apparatuses of U.S. immigration.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Tom Farinholt and Blair Edlow Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Yao, Xine, 1985- Disaffected.
- ISBN:
- 1478022108
- 9781478022107
- Publisher Number:
- 99989371288
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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