Realism and the novel form / Cecil Jenkins -- H. de. Balzac: Lost illusions (1837-43) / A.J. Mount -- I.S. Turgenev: Fathers and sons (1862) / Peter Henry -- G. Flaubert: Sentimental education (1869) / D.A. Williams -- G. Eliot: Middlemarch (1871-2) / Patsy Stoneman -- A. Strindberg: The red room (1879) / P.A. Holmes -- W.D. Howells: The rise of Silas Lapham (1885) / S. Foster -- B. Pérez Galdós: Fortunata and Jacinta (1886-7) / J.J. Macklin -- G. Verga: Mastro-Don Gesualdo (1888) / John Gatt-Rutter -- Theodroe Fontane: Effi Briest (1895) -- The practice of realism / D.A. Williams