The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism offers fresh interpretations of the artistic and political challenges of representing life accurately. It is the first book to treat the subject topically and thematically, in wide scope, with essays that draw upon recent scholarship in literary and cultural studies to offer an authoritative and in-depth reassessment of major and minor figures and the contexts that shaped their work.
The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism offers fresh interpretations of the artistic and political challenges of representing life accurately. It is the first book to treat the subject topically and thematically, in wide scope, with essays that draw upon recent scholarship in literary and cultural studies to offer an authoritative and in-depth reassessment of major and minor figures and the contexts that shaped their work.
Keith Newlin is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he teaches courses in American literary realism and naturalism, modernism, and drama. The editor of Studies in American Naturalism, he is also the author of Hamlin Garland, A Life and editor of The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism, among other books.
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* Contributors * Introduction * Keith Newlin * Part I: Contexts of Realisms * 1. Transnational Precursors of American Realism * Renate von Bardeleben * 2. American Realism and Gender * Donna M. Campbell * 3. The Feminine Origins of American Literary Realism * Sophia Forster * 4. Realism and the Uses of Humor * John Bird * 5. Local Color, World-System; or, American Realism at the Periphery * Mark Storey * 6. Aesthetic Slippage in Realism and Naturalism * Anita Duneer * 7. Realism as Modernism * Brad Evans * Part II: American Realisms * 8. Native American Realism * Lee Schweninger * 9. African American Realism * Christine Wooley * 10. Ghetto Realism-and Beyond * Lori Harrison-Kahan * 11. Asian American Realism * Julia H. Lee * 12. The Politics of U.S. Latino Literature and American Realism * Ramón J. Guerra * 13. Ethnic Caricature and the Comic Sensibility * Jean Lee Cole * 14, Racial Realism * Jolie A. Sheffer * Part III: Selling Realism * 15. The Realism Wars in the New York Periodical Press * Mark Noonan * 16. Realism and the Profession of Authorship * Graham Thompson * 17. Realism's American Readers, 1860-1914 * Charles Johanningsmeier * 18. The Censorship of Realist and Naturalist Novels, Then and Now * Caren Town * Part IV: Representing the Real * 19. Science and Aesthetics in American Realism * Andrew Hebard * 20. Realist Temporalities and the Distant Past * Melanie Dawson * 21. Spaces of Consumption in American Literary Realism * Gary Totten * 22. Dwelling in American Realism * Elif Armbruster * 23. Realism and Medicine * Phillip Barrish * 24. Realism and the New Woman * Leslie Petty * 25. Realism and the Middle-Class Balancing Act * Patrick Chura * Part V: Realism and the Other Arts * 26. Realism and Poetry * Jonathan Barron * 27. The Evolution of American Dramatic Realism * Eileen Herrmann * 28. Visual Art, Intertextuality, and Authorship in the Golden Age of Illustration * Adam Sonstegard * 29. American Realism and Photography * Astrid Böger * 30. Realist Literature, Painting, and Immediacy * Peter Betjemann * 31. Realism and the Cinematic Gaze * Nicolas S. Witschi * Part VI: Pedagogical Issues * 32. Teaching Literary Realism in Transnational America * Nathaniel Cadle * 33. Teaching American Realism in Germany * Klaus H. Schmidt * 34. Teaching and Researching American Literature and American Realism in China * Yuping Wang * 35. Realism 2.0 * Augusta Rohrbach * Index
* Contributors * Introduction * Keith Newlin * Part I: Contexts of Realisms * 1. Transnational Precursors of American Realism * Renate von Bardeleben * 2. American Realism and Gender * Donna M. Campbell * 3. The Feminine Origins of American Literary Realism * Sophia Forster * 4. Realism and the Uses of Humor * John Bird * 5. Local Color, World-System; or, American Realism at the Periphery * Mark Storey * 6. Aesthetic Slippage in Realism and Naturalism * Anita Duneer * 7. Realism as Modernism * Brad Evans * Part II: American Realisms * 8. Native American Realism * Lee Schweninger * 9. African American Realism * Christine Wooley * 10. Ghetto Realism-and Beyond * Lori Harrison-Kahan * 11. Asian American Realism * Julia H. Lee * 12. The Politics of U.S. Latino Literature and American Realism * Ramón J. Guerra * 13. Ethnic Caricature and the Comic Sensibility * Jean Lee Cole * 14, Racial Realism * Jolie A. Sheffer * Part III: Selling Realism * 15. The Realism Wars in the New York Periodical Press * Mark Noonan * 16. Realism and the Profession of Authorship * Graham Thompson * 17. Realism's American Readers, 1860-1914 * Charles Johanningsmeier * 18. The Censorship of Realist and Naturalist Novels, Then and Now * Caren Town * Part IV: Representing the Real * 19. Science and Aesthetics in American Realism * Andrew Hebard * 20. Realist Temporalities and the Distant Past * Melanie Dawson * 21. Spaces of Consumption in American Literary Realism * Gary Totten * 22. Dwelling in American Realism * Elif Armbruster * 23. Realism and Medicine * Phillip Barrish * 24. Realism and the New Woman * Leslie Petty * 25. Realism and the Middle-Class Balancing Act * Patrick Chura * Part V: Realism and the Other Arts * 26. Realism and Poetry * Jonathan Barron * 27. The Evolution of American Dramatic Realism * Eileen Herrmann * 28. Visual Art, Intertextuality, and Authorship in the Golden Age of Illustration * Adam Sonstegard * 29. American Realism and Photography * Astrid Böger * 30. Realist Literature, Painting, and Immediacy * Peter Betjemann * 31. Realism and the Cinematic Gaze * Nicolas S. Witschi * Part VI: Pedagogical Issues * 32. Teaching Literary Realism in Transnational America * Nathaniel Cadle * 33. Teaching American Realism in Germany * Klaus H. Schmidt * 34. Teaching and Researching American Literature and American Realism in China * Yuping Wang * 35. Realism 2.0 * Augusta Rohrbach * Index
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