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- catalog abstract "From Abraham Lincoln's wry observation that Harriet Beecher Stowe was "the little lady who made this big war" to Mark Twain's "wild proposition" that Walter Scott had somehow touched off sectional hostilities, there have been many competing theories about the impact of literature on nineteenth-century American society. In this provocative book, Kenneth W. Warren argues that the rise of literary realism late in the century was shaped by and in turn helped to shape the politics of racial difference following Reconstruction. Taking up a variety of novelists from this period, including most prominently Henry James and William Dean Howells, Warren demonstrates that even works not directly concerned with race were instrumental in forging a Jim Crow nation. As a literary history, Black and White Strangers places the writing of realistic novels within the context of their serialization in the monthly magazines of the 1880s. By viewing these novels in light of editorial policies regarding social propriety, national unity, and literary aesthetics, Warren reveals the often surprising ways in which realistic fiction at once challenged and abetted the growing conservatism of racial politics. Warren also seeks to bridge the gap between American and African-American literary studies, which have hitherto been "strangers" to each other. James and Howells, he argues, can be understood fully only when read alongside W.E.B. Du Bois and Frances E.W. Harper; James's The American Scene, for instance must be seen as a companion text to Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk. In making these connections, Warren challenges American and African-American studies to see themselves as mutually constitutive enterprises and to question the value of canon-based criticism in any complete investigation of the meaning of "race" in American cultural history.".
- catalog alternative "Black & white strangers".
- catalog contributor b4109980.
- catalog created "c1993. 1994.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993. 1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993. 1994.".
- catalog description "1. Reading Henry James -- 2. Aesthetics, race, and "warrants of decency" -- 3. The persistence of Uncle Tom and the problem of critical distinction -- 4. Black and white strangers.".
- catalog description "From Abraham Lincoln's wry observation that Harriet Beecher Stowe was "the little lady who made this big war" to Mark Twain's "wild proposition" that Walter Scott had somehow touched off sectional hostilities, there have been many competing theories about the impact of literature on nineteenth-century American society. In this provocative book, Kenneth W. Warren argues that the rise of literary realism late in the century was shaped by and in turn helped to shape the politics of racial difference following Reconstruction. Taking up a variety of novelists from this period, including most prominently Henry James and William Dean Howells, Warren demonstrates that even works not directly concerned with race were instrumental in forging a Jim Crow nation. As a literary history, Black and White Strangers places the writing of realistic novels within the context of their serialization in the monthly magazines of the 1880s. By viewing these novels in light of editorial policies regarding social propriety, national unity, and literary aesthetics, Warren reveals the often surprising ways in which realistic fiction at once challenged and abetted the growing conservatism of racial politics. Warren also seeks to bridge the gap between American and African-American literary studies, which have hitherto been "strangers" to each other. James and Howells, he argues, can be understood fully only when read alongside W.E.B. Du Bois and Frances E.W. Harper; James's The American Scene, for instance must be seen as a companion text to Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk. In making these connections, Warren challenges American and African-American studies to see themselves as mutually constitutive enterprises and to question the value of canon-based criticism in any complete investigation of the meaning of "race" in American cultural history.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-162) and index.".
- catalog extent "ix, 168 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0226873846 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0226873854 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Black literature and culture".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993. 1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "810.9/3520396073 20".
- catalog subject "African Americans in literature.".
- catalog subject "American fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "James, Henry, 1843-1916 Political and social views.".
- catalog subject "James, Henry, 1843-1916.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society United States History.".
- catalog subject "PS374.N4 W367 1993".
- catalog subject "Race relations in literature.".
- catalog subject "Realism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Whites in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Reading Henry James -- 2. Aesthetics, race, and "warrants of decency" -- 3. The persistence of Uncle Tom and the problem of critical distinction -- 4. Black and white strangers.".
- catalog title "Black & white strangers".
- catalog title "Black and white strangers : race and American literary realism / Kenneth W. Warren.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".