Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: American literary realism
- Chapter 1 Literary precursors, literary contexts
- Chapter 2 The “look of agony” and everyday middle-class life
- Chapter 3 Creating the “odour” of the real
- Chapter 4 Conflicting manners
- Chapter 5 “Democracy in literature”?
- Chapter 6 “The blab of the pave”
- Chapter 7 Crisis of agency
- Chapter 8 “Certain facts of life”
- Chapter 9 “The unjust spirit of caste”
- Chapter 10 New Americans write realism
- Conclusion: realisms after realism
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index
- References
Works cited
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: American literary realism
- Chapter 1 Literary precursors, literary contexts
- Chapter 2 The “look of agony” and everyday middle-class life
- Chapter 3 Creating the “odour” of the real
- Chapter 4 Conflicting manners
- Chapter 5 “Democracy in literature”?
- Chapter 6 “The blab of the pave”
- Chapter 7 Crisis of agency
- Chapter 8 “Certain facts of life”
- Chapter 9 “The unjust spirit of caste”
- Chapter 10 New Americans write realism
- Conclusion: realisms after realism
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index
- References
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