The Cambridge companion to American realism and naturalism : Howells to London

Abstract

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.

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