Blood Work: Imagining Race in American Literature, 1890-1940The invocation of blood as both an image and a concept has long been critical in the formation of American racism. In Blood Work, Shawn Salvant mines works from the American literary canon to explore the multitude of associations that race and blood held in the consciousness of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Americans. Drawing upon race and metaphor theory, Salvant provides readings of four classic novels featuring themes of racial