02893nam 2200637Ia 450 991045473270332120200520144314.00-8173-8228-3(CKB)1000000000774994(EBL)454588(OCoLC)427566227(SSID)ssj0000120702(PQKBManifestationID)11141411(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000120702(PQKBWorkID)10102339(PQKB)11372533(MiAaPQ)EBC454588(MdBmJHUP)muse9333(Au-PeEL)EBL454588(CaPaEBR)ebr10309871(EXLCZ)99100000000077499420060120d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrChesnutt and realism[electronic resource] a study of the novels /Ryan SimmonsTuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20061 online resource (210 p.)Studies in American literary realism and naturalismDescription based upon print version of record.0-8173-1520-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-193) and index.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.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 With the release of previously unpublished novels and a recent proliferation of critical studies on his life and work, Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) has emerged as a major American writer of his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 typiStudies in American literary realism and naturalism.African Americans in literatureRealism in literatureRace relations in literatureNational characteristics, American, in literatureElectronic books.African Americans in literature.Realism in literature.Race relations in literature.National characteristics, American, in literature.813.4813/.4Simmons Ryan1969-1051850MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454732703321Chesnutt and realism2482643UNINA