The Complete and Unabridged Fiction of Nella Larsen: Quicksand, Passing, and the Complete Short Fiction
Hardcover
General FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515432456
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 202
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A collected edition of the complete fiction of Nella Larsen, bringing together her two novels and shorter works in a single volume. This edition includes Quicksand and Passing, along with her short fiction, presenting the full scope of Larsen's literary output.
The works examine identity, social position, and personal constraint within early twentieth-century American life. Larsen's method is characterized by clarity, control, and psychological precision, with particular attention to the tensions between individual experience and social structure. Across both novels and shorter pieces, themes of belonging, perception, and self-definition are developed through disciplined narrative form.
Positioned within American literature, Larsen's fiction is closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance and remains central to its study. This volume presents her work as a unified body, allowing for sustained engagement with her themes and methods.
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