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List of contributors; Introduction; The problem of definition DonaldPizer; Part I. Historical Contents: 1. The American background Louis J.Budd; 2. The European background Richard Lehan; Part II. ContemporaryCritical Issues: 3. Recent critical approaches Michael Anesko; 4.Expanding the canon of American realism Elizabeth Ammons; Part III.Case Studies: 5. The Portrait of a Lady and The Rise of Silas Lapham:the company they kept John W. Crowley; 6. The realism of Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn Tom Quirk; 7. The Red Badge of Courage and McTeague:passage to modernity J. C. Levenson; 8. What more can Carrie want?Naturalistic ways of consuming women Blanche Gelfant; 9. The Awakeningand The House of Mirth: plotting experience and experiencing plotBarbara Hochman; 10. The Jungle and The Call of the Wild: London's andSinclair's animal and human jungles Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin; 11.Troubled black humanity in The Souls of Black Folk and TheAutobiography of an Ex-coloured Man Kenneth W. Warren; Further reading;Index.