An important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of realism. Β With the release of previously unpublished novels and a recent proliferation of critical studies on his life and work, Charles W. Chesnutt (1858β1932) has emerged as a major American writer of his timeβthe age of Howells, Tw
A Man's Game: Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism (Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism)
β Scribed by John Dudley
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 233
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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