The selected literary letters of Paul Laurence Dunbar / by Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906

“…American literary realism and naturalism…”
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Cartoons and caricatures of Mark Twain in context : reformer and social critic, 1869-1910 / by Myrick, Leslie Diane, Scharnhorst, Gary

“…Studies in American literary realism and naturalism…”
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Echoes of Emerson : Rethinking Realism in Twain, James, Wharton, and Cather / by Polley, Diana Hope, 1970-

“…Studies in American literary realism and naturalism…”
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Essentials of the theory of fiction /

Table of Contents: “…Marxist aesthetics and literary realism /…”
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How to make believe : the fictional truths of the representational arts /

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Realist critiques of visual culture : from Hardy to Barnes / by Barnaby, Edward

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: literary realism as meta-spectacle -- "Pugin was wrong, and Wren was right": architectural revival as spectacle in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure -- "The true Italy is to be found by patient observation": tourism as spectacle in E.M. …”

Arno Schmidt's Zettel's Traum : an analysis / by Langbehn, Volker Max, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Schmidt's concept of literary realism -- 3. The Etym theory -- 4. Tropes of subversion -- 5. …”
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Arno Schmidt's Zettel's Traum : an analysis / by Langbehn, Volker Max, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Schmidt's concept of literary realism -- 3. The Etym theory -- 4. Tropes of subversion -- 5. …”
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After Augustine : the meditative reader and the text / by Stock, Brian

Table of Contents: “…Reading and self-knowledge -- Ethical values and the literary imagination -- Later ancient literary realism -- The problem of self-representation -- Petrarch's portrait of Augustine -- Two versions of Utopia -- Lectio spiritualis.…”
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After Augustine : the meditative reader and the text / by Stock, Brian

Table of Contents: “…Reading and self-knowledge -- Ethical values and the literary imagination -- Later ancient literary realism -- The problem of self-representation -- Petrarch's portrait of Augustine -- Two versions of Utopia -- Lectio spiritualis.…”
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Bret Harte, a reference guide / by Barnett, Linda Diz

The theory of the novel; new essays. by Halperin, John, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…On literary realism. Levine, G. Realism reconsidered. Loofbourow, J. …”

Postcolonial realism and the concept of the political / by Sorensen, Eli Park, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Postcolonial studies and the end of history -- Nation, nationalism and the novel form -- The historico-political discourse -- The political significance of literary realism -- Postcolonial realism -- The politics of realism : Rohinton Mistry's Such a long journey.…”

Configurations of the real in Chinese literary and aesthetic modernity / by Button, Peter, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…The trials of Chinese literary realism -- Lu Xun's Ah Q as gruesome hybrid -- The aesthetic critique of modernity in Chinese Marxism, new criticism, and Adorno -- Global/modern figurations of the type in Cai Yi, Heidegger, and Whitman -- Aesthetics and desire in Yang Mo's Song of youth.…”
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Afro-realisms and the romances of race : rethinking blackness in the African American novel / by Daniels-Rauterkus, Melissa

Table of Contents: “…Chesnutt's The House behind the Cedars -- The Limits of Literary Realism: Pauline Hopkins's Postracial Fantasy in Of One Blood -- Epilogue: Rethinking Blackness.…”
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Philanthropy in British and American fiction : Dickens, Hawthorne, Eliot, and Howells / by Christianson, Frank

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Freewomen and supermen : Edwardian radicals and literary modernism / by Fernihough, Anne

Table of Contents: “…Superbeings in suburbia : anarchism and the rejection of literary realism -- Mind over the masses : the emergence of stream-of-consciousness writing -- 'Flying by those nets' : aspirations and limits in post-Edwardian fiction -- Eugene and hygiene : early modernist poetics -- Sex in superworld -- Transcending the flesh : vegetarianism, diet-reform, and pure living.…”

The order of forms : realism, formalism, and social space / by Kornbluh, Anna

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the order of forms: mathematic, aesthetic, and political formalisms -- The realist blueprint: for a formalist theory of literary realism -- The set theory of Wuthering heights: realism, antagonism, and the infinities of social space -- The limits of Bleak house -- Symbolic logic on the social plane of Alice's Adventures in wonderland -- Obscure forms: the social geometry of Jude the obscure -- States of psychoanalysis: formalization and the space of the political -- Conclusion: sustaining forms.…”

Reading for realism : the history of a U.S. literary institution, 1850-1910 / by Glazener, Nancy

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The saloon and the mission : addiction, conversion, and the politics of redemption in American culture / by Cannon, Eoin F., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : addiction recovery and the world as it should be -- The drunkard's conversion and the salvation of the social order -- "What a radical found in Water Street" -- The varieties of conversion polemic -- New Deal individualism and the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous -- Literary realism and the secularization of the drunkard's conversion -- The drinker's epiphany in modernist literature -- The Iceman Cometh and the drama of disillusion -- Recovery memoir and the crack-up of liberalism -- Conclusion : addiction in a new era of recovery.…”
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