Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism

by Kenneth W. Warren and Professor Kenneth W. Warren

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226873846
• ISBN13: 9780226873848
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 8.5"