Title Truth stranger than fiction : race, realism, and the U.S. literary marketplace / Augusta Rohrbach.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PS374.R32 R64 2002	Available	---

Edition	1st ed.
Description	xvi, 153 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-145) and index.
Contents	"Truth stranger and stronger than fiction": reexamining William Lloyd Garrison's The liberator -- Making it real: the impact of slave narratives on the literary marketplace -- The strange disappearance of Rose Terry Cooke and the eclipse of American realism -- William Dean Howells without his mustache -- The manner of the marketplace: Edith Wharton as race writer -- Keeping it real: truth more marketable than fiction?
Subject	American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	American fiction.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Race in literature.
	Race in literature.
	Capitalism and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Capitalism and literature.
	United States.
	History.
	Economics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Economics and literature.
	Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Antislavery movements.
	Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 -- Influence.
	Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879.
	African Americans in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	Realism in literature.
	Realism in literature.
	Slavery in literature.
	Slavery in literature.
	Money in literature.
	Money in literature.
ISBN	0312239211