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