Tag: Matthew Wilson

  • Reading The Human Stain through Charles W. Chesnutt: The Genre of the Passing Novel Philip Roth Studies Volume 2, Number 2 (Fall 2006) pages 138-150 DOI: 10.1353/prs.2011.0066 Matthew Wilson, Professor of English and Humanities Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg This article historicizes The Human Stain, placing it in the genre of the passing novel. The analysis…

  • “Whiteness in the Novels of Charles W. Chesnutt” is the first study to focus exclusively on Chesnutt’s novels. Examining the three published in Chesnutt’s lifetime—”The House Behind the Cedars,” “The Marrow of Tradition,” and “The Colonel’s Dream”—as well as his posthumously published novels, this study explores the dilemma of a black writer who wrote primarily…