Henry B Wonham

Biographic Data

ID680861
NAMEHenry B Wonham
GIVEN NAMESHenry B
FAMILY NAMEWonham
SIGNATUREWONHAM H B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Oregon
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT17
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging by Rebecca Wanzo (review)

    Henry B WonhamARTICLEAfrican American Review2023

    Reviewed by: The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging by Rebecca Wanzo Henry B. Wonham Rebecca Wanzo. The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging. New York: New York UP, 2020. 245 pp. $29.00. Rebecca Wanzo begins her study of African American comic art and political belonging by contemplating an image that captures the not-so-subtle dynamic at the heart of her project.…

  • Genres of Valuation: Marginalist Economics and American Literary Realism

    Henry B WonhamARTICLEAmerican Literature2021Cited by: 1References: 7

    This essay argues that late nineteenth-century American fiction, as exemplified by William Dean Howells's The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900), is entangled in the period's embrace of a new understanding of economic conditions, one premised on the significance of consumer data as the raw material of economic interpretation and fixated on mathematical analysis as a source of knowledge about value. Marginalism…

  • Postcritical Howells: American Realism and Liberal Guilt

    Henry B WonhamARTICLEAmerican Literature2020References: 10

    This essay explores the concept of liberal guilt in William Dean Howells’s fiction, focusing especially on his 1888 novel Annie Kilburn. Genealogies of liberal guilt rarely mention Howells, and yet no American writer has more painstakingly elaborated the embarrassing predicament of middle-class complicity in social arrangements that entail the widespread suffering of others. I provide a summary of theoretical positions on liberal guilt as a struc…

  • Twain's Brand: Humor in Contemporary American Culture

    Henry B WonhamARTICLEJournal of American History2014

    Journal Article Twain's Brand: Humor in Contemporary American Culture Get access Judith Yaross Lee. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012. xiv, 226 pp. $60.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 4, March 2014, Pages 1210–1211, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau051 Published: 01 March 2014

  • Representing Segregation: Toward an Aesthetics of Living Jim Crow, and Other Forms of Racial Division

    Henry B WonhamARTICLEJournal of American History2011

    Journal Article Representing Segregation: Toward an Aesthetics of Living Jim Crow, and Other Forms of Racial Division Get access Representing Segregation: Toward an Aesthetics of Living Jim Crow, and Other Forms of Racial Division. Ed. by Brian Norman and Piper Kendrix Williams. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010. xiv, 280 pp. Cloth, $80.00, ISBN978-1-4384-3033-1. Paper, $29.95, ISBN978-1-4384-3032-4.) Henry B. Wonham Henry B. Wonh…

  • The Absent Man: The Narrative Craft of Charles W. Chesnutt

    Henry B Wonham, Charles T Duncan et al.ARTICLEAfrican American Review2001

    As the first African-American fiction writer to achieve a national reputation, Ohio native Charles W. Chesnutt (1858 1932) in many ways established the terms of the black literary tradition now exemplified by such writers as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Charles Johnson. Following the highly autobiographical nonfiction produced by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and other slave narrative writers, Chesnutt's complex, multi-layered short fic…

  • I Want a Real Coon”: Mark Twain and Late-Nineteenth-Century Ethnic Caricature

    Henry B WonhamARTICLEAmerican Literature2000

    Research Article| March 01 2000 “I Want a Real Coon”: Mark Twain and Late-Nineteenth-Century Ethnic Caricature Henry B. Wonham Henry B. Wonham Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 117–152. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-117 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Henry B. Wonham; “I Want a Real Coon”: Mark Twain and Late-Ninet…

  • Charles W. Chestnutt: A Study of the Short Fiction

    Ben Slote, Henry B WonhamARTICLEAfrican American Review2000

  • Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature

    Henry B Wonham, Werner SollorsARTICLEComparative Literature1999

  • Criticism and the Color Line: Desegregating American Literary Studies

    Georgina Dodge, Henry B WonhamARTICLEAfrican American Review1998

    This volume celebrates the hybridity of American literary culture. Over the last decade and more, American literary studies have tended, with only a few rare and recent exceptions, to look at separate strands of literary history and tradition--African American or white, male or female, lesbian or gay or straight. Every contributor to this collection, no matter how widely varied the point of view in other ways, examines the dynamic relationship be…

  • Criticism and the Color Line: Desegregating American Literary Studies

    Myriam J A Chancy, Henry B WonhamARTICLEAmerican Literature1997

  • All is True: The Claims and Strategies of Realist Fiction

    Henry B Wonham, Lilian R FurstARTICLEAmerican Literature1996

    is true, realist writers would say of their work, to which critics now respond: All is art and artifice. Offering a new approach to reading nineteenth-century realist fiction, Lilian R. Furst seeks to reconcile these contradictory claims. In doing so, she clarifies the deceptions, appropriations, intentions, and ultimately the power of literary realism. In close textual analyses of works ranging across European and American literature, including …

  • Being a Boy Again: Autobiography and the American Boy Book

    Henry B Wonham, Marcia JacobsonARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1995

  • Writing Realism, Policing Consciousness: Howells and the Black Body

    Henry B WonhamARTICLEAmerican Literature1995

  • Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850-1920

    Henry B Wonham, David E ShiARTICLEAmerican Literature1995

  • Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale

    Laura E Skandera-Trombley, Laura Skandera-Trombley et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1993

  • In the Name of Wonder: The Emergence of Tall Narrative in American Writing

    Open AccessHenry B WonhamARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1989Cited by: 2