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Preface.Introduction.Toward the “Great American Novel”: Romance and Romanticism in the Age of Realism.Of Realism and Reality: Definitions and Contexts.Dramas of the Broken Teacup: American “Quiet” Realism.The Nature of Naturalism: Definitions and Backgrounds.Implacable Nature, Household Tragedy, and Epic Romance.Frank Norris: The Beast Within.Rocking–Horse Winners: Theodore Dreiser and Urban Naturalism.Subjective Realism: Stephen Crane's Impressionist Techniques.9. “Impressions” of War: The Interior Battlefield.10. Sense and Sensibility: Sentimental Domesticity and “New Woman's Fiction”.11. Domestic Feminism: The Problematic Louisa May Alcott.12. “All the Happy Endings”: Marriage, Insanity and Suicide .13. Vulgarians at the Gate: Edith Wharton and the Collapse of Gentility.14. Tea–Table as Jungle: Henry James and the Psychopathology of Everyday Life.15. Economies of Pain: W. D. Howells .16. The “Gilded Age”: Genteel Critics and Militant Muckrakers.17. What Is An American? Regionalism and Race.18. The Territory Ahead: Emerging African American Voices.19. The “Dream of a Republic”: War, Reconstruction, and Future History.20. At the Modernist Margin: Mark Twain.Bibliographical Resources.