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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454732703321

Autore

Simmons Ryan <1969->

Titolo

Chesnutt and realism [[electronic resource] ] : a study of the novels / / Ryan Simmons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8173-8228-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

Studies in American literary realism and naturalism

Disciplina

813.4

813/.4

Soggetti

African Americans in literature

Realism in literature

Race relations in literature

National characteristics, American, in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-193) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Of race and realism -- Learning to be a realist: Chesnutt's Northern novels -- Time passing: Chesnutt's revisions of the "Tragic Mulatta" tale -- Simple and complex discourse in The marrow of tradition -- The colonel's dream: reconsidering a radical text -- "The category of surreptitious things": Paul Marchand, F.M.C. and The  quarry.

Sommario/riassunto

An important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of realism.    With the release of previously unpublished novels and a recent proliferation of critical studies on his life and work, Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) has emerged as a major American writer of his time-the age of Howells, Twain, and Wharton. In Chesnutt and Realism, Ryan Simmons breaks new ground by theorizing how understandings of literary realism have shaped, and can continue to shape, the reception of Chesnutt's work.   Although Chesnutt is typi