Playing the races [electronic resource] : ethnic caricature and American literary realism / Henry B. Wonham.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.Description: viii, 196 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.309355 21
LOC classification:
  • PS374.R32 W66 2004eb
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Contents:
Introduction: the age of caricature, the age of realism -- William Dean Howells and the touch of exaggeration which typifies -- "I want a real coon": Twain and ethnic caricature -- A Jamesian art to be cultivated -- Edith Wharton's flamboyant copy -- The "curious realism" of Charles Chesnutt.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-192) and index.

Introduction: the age of caricature, the age of realism -- William Dean Howells and the touch of exaggeration which typifies -- "I want a real coon": Twain and ethnic caricature -- A Jamesian art to be cultivated -- Edith Wharton's flamboyant copy -- The "curious realism" of Charles Chesnutt.

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