List of Contributors
Chronology
Introduction: The Problem of Definition
DONALD PIZER
PART ONE: HISTORICAL CONTEXTS
I The American Background
LOUIS J.BUDD
2 The European Background
RICHARD LEHAN
PART TWO: CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL ISSUES
3 Recent Critical Approaches
MICHAEL ANESKO
4 Expanding the Canon of American Realism
ELIZABETH AMMONS
PART THREE: CASE STUDIES
5 The Portrait of a Lady and The Rise of Silas Lapbam:The Company They Kept
JOHN W. CROWLEY
6 The Realism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
TOM QUIRK
7 The Red Badge of Courage and Mc Teague:
Passage to Modernity
J. C. LEVENSON
8 What More Can Carrie Want? Naturalistic Ways
of Consuming Women
BLANCHE H. GELFANT
g The Awakening and The House of Mirtb:Plotting Experience and Experiencing Plot
BARBARA HOCHMAN
10 The Call of the Wdd and The Jungle: Jack London's and Upton Sinclair's Animal and Human Jungles
JACQUELINE TAVERNIER-COURBIN
11 Troubled Black Humanity in V,e Souls of Black Folk and The Autobiograpby of an Ex-Colored Man
KENNETH W. WARREN
Further Reading
Index