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Acknowledgments Introduction: "Ain't That Work?" Pt. 1: The Works ofMind and Body 1: Manual Labor and the Problem of Literary Representation 2:The Meaning and Demeaning of Manual Labor at the Exhibitions of theMassachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association Pt. 2: Eros and Labor 3: TheErotics of Labor in Melville's Redburn 4: Naturalized Labor and NaturalHistory in Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Pt. 3:Labor's Gendered Body 5: Women Carved of Oak and Korl: The Female Body as theSite of Gendered Labor in Hawthorne and Davis 6: The Labored Discourse ofDomesticity 7: Maternal Labor in the Work of "Literary Domestics": CatharineMaria Sedgwick and Susan Warner 8: Literary Composition as Maternal Labor inUncle Tom's Cabin Pt. 4: Writing the Work of Slaves 9: The Meanings of Workand Song in Antebellum Slavery 10: Slavery, Work, and Song in FrederickDouglass's Autobiographies Pt. 5: Toward an Ontology of Labor 11: "By theLabor of My Hands Only": The Making and Unmaking of Walden Afterword NotesIndex