The Cambridge companion to American realism and naturalism / edited by Donald Pizer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pizer, Donald, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Realism in literature.

Naturalism in literature.

American fiction--19th century--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 287 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

The Cambridge Companion to American Realism & Naturalism

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This Companion examines a number of issues related to the terms realism and naturalism. The introduction seeks both to discuss the problems in the use of these two terms in relation to late nineteenth-century fiction and to describe the history of previous efforts to make the terms expressive of American writing of this period. The Companion includes ten essays which fall into four categories: essays on the historical context of realism and naturalism by Louis Budd and Richard Lehan; essays on critical approaches to the movements since the early 1970s by Michael Anesko, essays on the efforts to expand the canon of realism and naturalism by Elizabeth Ammons; and a full-scale discussion of ten major texts, from W. D. Howell's The Rise of Silas Lapham to Jack London's The Call of the Wild, by John W. Crowley, Tom Quirk, J. C. Levenson, Blanche Gelfant, Barbara Hochman, and Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

ISBN:

1-139-81525-3

1-139-00038-1