Chesnutt and realism : a study of the novels / Ryan Simmons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simmons, Ryan, 1969-

Series:

Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.

Studies in American literary realism and naturalism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans in literature.

Realism in literature.

Race relations in literature.

National characteristics, American, in literature.

Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932--Criticism and interpretation.

Chesnutt, Charles W.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 With the release of previously unpublished novels and a recent proliferation of critical studies on his life and work, Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) has emerged as a major American writer of his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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

0-8173-8228-3

OCLC:

427566227