Playing the races [electronic resource] : ethnic caricature and American literary realism / Henry B. Wonham.
2004
PS374.R32 W66 2004eb
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Playing the races [electronic resource] : ethnic caricature and American literary realism / Henry B. Wonham.
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Wonham, Henry B., 1960-
ISBN
0195161947
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New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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English
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viii, 196 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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PS374.R32 W66 2004eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.309355
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-192) and index.
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Table of 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.
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.