The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism
The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism
From Howells to London
Donald Pizer, Tulane University, Louisiana
July 2006
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The terms realism and naturalism are considered in the context of expressing a style of American writing in relation to late nineteenth century fiction movements. This text analyzes ten major texts, from W.D. Howell's The Rise of Silas Lapham to Jack London's The Call of the Wild.
- New approaches to a major period in American literature
- Original essays by distinguished contributors
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Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- The problem of definition Donald Pizer
- Part I. Historical Contents:
- 1. The American background Louis J. Budd
- 2. The European background Richard Lehan
- Part II. Contemporary Critical Issues:
- 3. Recent critical approaches Michael Anesko
- 4. Expanding the canon of American realism Elizabeth Ammons
- Part III. Case Studies:
- 5. The Portrait of a Lady and The Rise of Silas Lapham: the company they kept John W. Crowley
- 6. The realism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Quirk
- 7. The Red Badge of Courage and McTeague: passage to modernity J. C. Levenson
- 8. What more can Carrie want? Naturalistic ways of consuming women Blanche Gelfant
- 9. The Awakening and The House of Mirth: plotting experience and experiencing plot Barbara Hochman
- 10. The Jungle and The Call of the Wild: London's and Sinclair's animal and human jungles Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin
- 11. Troubled black humanity in The Souls of Black Folk and The Autobiography of an Ex-coloured Man Kenneth W. Warren
- Further reading
- Index.
