Pizer, Donald.

The Cambridge companion to American realism and naturalism Howells to London / [Book :] American realism and naturalism. edited by Donald Pizer. - Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995. - 287 p. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge companions to literature. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-280) and index.

The problem of definition / The American background / The European background / Recent critical approaches / Expanding the canon of American realism / The Portrait of a lady and The rise of Silas Lapham : the company they kept / The realism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / The Red badge of courage and McTeague : passage to modernity / What more can Carrie want? Naturalistic ways of consuming women / The Awakening and The House of mirth : plotting experience and experiencing plot / The Call of the wild and The Jungle : Jack London's and Upton Sinclair's animal and human jungles / Troubled Black humanity in The Souls of Black folk and The Autobiography of an ex-colored man / Donald Pizer -- Louis J. Budd -- Richard Lehan -- Michael Anesko -- Elizabeth Ammons -- John W. Crowley -- Tom Quirk -- J.C. Levenson -- Blanche H. Gelfant -- Barbara Hochman -- Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin -- Kenneth W. Warren.

All Ages.

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American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
American fiction--19th century--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Naturalism in literature.
Realism in literature.

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