Books by Charles Chesnutt
“Marrow of Tradition is a 1901 novel about the 1898 Wilmington Coup, in North Carolina, in which white supremacists led a murderous assault on the city’s Black newspaper and Black neighborhoods, and violently overthrew a Republican-led government that included many Black Americans in positions of power. The precise number of casualties isn’t known, but at least dozens—perhaps hundreds—were killed.” Read more...
The Best 19th-Century American Novels
Nathan Wolff, Literary Scholar
Interviews where books by Charles Chesnutt were recommended
The Best 19th-Century American Novels, recommended by Nathan Wolff
In the novels of the 19th century, the United States comes alive with all its contradictions and complications. Nathan Wolff, a professor of English at Tufts and author of Not Quite Hope and Other Political Emotions in the Gilded Age, introduces us to his picks of the best 19th-century American novels, including two works of historical fiction and a memoir that influenced the novel form.
