by Kenneth W. Warren
University of Chicago Press, 1993
Paper: 978-0-226-87385-5 | Cloth: 978-0-226-87384-8
Library of Congress Classification PS374.N4W367 1993
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.93520396073

ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
In a major contribution to the study of race in American literature, Kenneth W. Warren argues that late-nineteenth-century literary realism was shaped by and in turn helped to shape post-Civil War racial politics. Taking up a variety of novelists, including Henry James and William Dean Howells, he shows that even works not directly concerned with race were instrumental in the return after reconstruction to a racially segregated society.