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Playing the races ethnic caricature and American literary realism
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Title
Playing the races [electronic resource] : ethnic caricature and American literary realism / Henry B. Wonham.
ISBN
0195161947
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Physical Description
viii, 196 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2005. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 23, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-192) and index.
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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