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

• Autore: Simmons Ryan <1969->
• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (210 p.)
• Disciplina: 813.4; 813/.4
• Soggetto topico: African Americans in literature; Realism in literature; Race relations in literature; National characteristics, American, in literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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 With the release of previously unpublished novels and a recent proliferation of critical studies on his life and work, Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) has emerged as a major American writer of his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
• Titolo autorizzato: Chesnutt and realism
• ISBN: 0-8173-8228-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454732703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.