| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 287 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
The Companion examines a number of issues related to the terms realism and naturalism, which have long served to designate major late nineteenth-century American fiction |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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American fiction -- 19th century -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Naturalism in literature
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Realism in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Author |
Pizer, Donald
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Cambridge University Press
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| ISBN |
9780511222306 (electronic bk. ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511222300 (electronic bk. ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780521438766 |
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