List of Contributors
Chronology
Introduction: The Problem of Definition
PART ONE: HISTORICAL CONTEXTS
1 The American Background
2 The European Background
PART TWO: CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL ISSUES
3 Recent Critical Approaches
4 Expanding the Canon of American Realism
PART THREE: CASE STUDIES
5 The Portrait of a Lady and The Rise of Silas Lapham:The Company
They Kept
6 The Realism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
7 The Red Badge of Courage and McTeague:Passage to Modernity
8 What More Can Carrie What? Naturalistic Ways of Consuming Women
9 The Awakening and The House of Mirth: Plotting Experience and
Experiencing Plot
10 The Call of the Wild and The Jungle: Jack Londons and Upton
Sinclairs Animal and Human Jungles
11 Troubled Black Humanity in The Souls of Black Folk and The
Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man
Further Reading
Index
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