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As a self-described \"tool of the democratic spirit,\" designed to \"prick the bubble of abstract types,\" literary realism would seem to have little in common with the aggressively dehumanizing comic imagery that began to proliferate in magazines\n\u003cbr\u003eand newspapers after the Civil War. Indeed, critics such as Alain Locke hailed realism's potential to accomplish \"the artistic emancipation of the Negro,\" a project that logically extended to other\n\u003cbr\u003egroups systematically misrepresented in the comic imagery of the period. From the influential \"Editor's Study\" at Harper's Monthly, William Dean Howells touted the democratic impulse of realist imagery as an alternative to romanticism's \"pride of caste,\" which is \"averse to the mass of men\" and \"consents to know them only in some conventionalized and artificial guise.\"  Yet if literary realism pursued the interests of democracy by affirming \"the equality of things\n\u003cbr\u003eand the unity of men,\" why did its major practitioners, including Howells himself, regularly employ comic typification as a feature of their representational practice? Critics have often dismissed such\n\u003cbr\u003eapparent lapses in realist practice as blind spots, vestiges of a genteel social consciousness that failed to keep pace with realism's avowed democratic aspirations. Such explanations are useful to a point, but they overlook the fact that the age of realism in American art and letters was simultaneously the great age of ethnic caricature. Henry B. Wonham argues that these two aesthetic programs, one committed to representation of the fully humanized individual, the other invested in broad\n\u003cbr\u003eethnic abstractions, operate less as antithetical choices than as complementary impulses, both of which receive full play within the period's most demanding literary and graphic works. The seemingly\n\u003cbr\u003eanomalous presence of gross ethnic abstractions within works by Howells, Twain, James, Wharton, and Chesnutt hints at realism's vexed and complicated relationship with the caricatured ethnic images that played a central role in late nineteenth-century American thinking about race, identity, and national culture. In illuminating that relationship, Playing the Races offers a fresh understanding of the rich literary discourse conceived at the intersection of the realist and the\n\u003cbr\u003ecaricatured image.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156293873902,"sku":"9780195161946","price":215.63,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/products\/9780195161946.jpg?v=1683541953"},{"product_id":"pen-is-ours-a-listing-of-writings-by-and-about-african-american-women-the","title":"Pen is Ours: A Listing of Writings by and about African-American Women, The","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis bibliography of writing by and about African-American women provides a much needed research tool to scholars and researchers in the field. The bibliography lists writing by African-American women whose earliest publication appeared before 1910; a supplemental bibliography lists writing published as of 1911.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156295119086,"sku":"9780195062038","price":191.19,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/products\/9780195062038.jpg?v=1683541969"},{"product_id":"sisters-choice","title":"Sister's Choice","description":"\u003cp\u003eAre American women writers from different eras and different backgrounds connected by common threads in a coherent tradition?  How have the relationships between women's rights, women's rites, and women's writing figured in the history of literature by women in the United States?   Drawing on a wide range of writers from Margaret Fuller to Alice Walker, Elaine Showalter argues that post-colonial as well as feminist literary theory can help us\n\u003cbr\u003eunderstand the hybrid, intertextual, and changing forms of American women's writing, and the way that `women's culture' intersects with other cultural forms.  Showalter looks closely at three American\n\u003cbr\u003eclassics - Little Women, The Awakening, and The House of Mirth - and traces the transformations in such major themes, images, and genres of American women's writing as the American Miranda, the Female Gothic, and the patchwork quilt.  Ending with a moving description of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, she shows how the women's tradition is a literary quilt that offers a new map of a changing America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156298821870,"sku":"9780198123835","price":231.35,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/products\/9780198123835.jpg?v=1683542030"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/collections\/literature.oembed","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}