Playing the Races - Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism

Zusatztext In an insightful study of William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Charles W. Chestnutt, Wonham shows that ethnic caricature was actually an integral component of realist art.... Filled with fresh insights, this book successfully demonstrates that ethnic caricature was, surprisingly, right at home within the world of American literary realism. Klappentext Why did so many of the writers who aligned themselves with the social and aesthetic aims of late nineteenth-century American literary realism rely on stock conventions of ethnic caricature in their treatment of immigrant and African-American figures? Playing the Races argues that literary realism and ethnic caricature, two dramatically different aesthetic programs that flourished side by side in periodicals of the era, operated less as antithetical choices than as complementary impulses, both of which received full play within late nineteenth-century America's most demanding literary and graphic works. Zusammenfassung Why did so many of the writers who aligned themselves with the social and aesthetic aims of late 19th-century American literary realism rely on stock conventions of ethnic caricature in their treatment of immigrant African-American figures?

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Henry B Wonham, Henry B. Wonham, Henry B. (Associate Professor in the Depar Wonham, Henry B. (Associate Professor in the Department of English Wonham, Wonham Henry B.
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 22.04.2004
• EAN: 9780195161946
• ISBN: 978-0-19-516194-6
• Pages: 208
• Thème: United States
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form