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The Portable American Realism Reader Various

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The Portable American Realism Reader Various

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Résumé

An anthology of the American short story between the Civil War and World War I, containing 47 stories by 30 writers. There are introductory essays on the historical and literary context of the Age of Realism, a chronology, critical headnotes and minibiographies.

The Portable American Realism Reader Résumé

The Portable American Realism Reader Various

This is an anthology of the American short story between the Civil War and World War I, containing 47 stories by 30 writers. Realist writers, represented by Mark Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin and Willa Cather among others, sought to paint life as it is, human feelings in their true proportions and relations. There are introductory essays on the historical and literary context of the Age of Realism, a chronology, critical headnotes and minibiographies.

À propos de Various

James Nagel, Edison Distonguished Professor of English at the University of Georgia, has edited several collections on the works of Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Crane, and Hamlin Garland, as well as the Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition of John Steinbeck's Pastures of Heaven.

Tom Quirk is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the editor of the Penguin Classics editions of Mark Twain's Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches (1994) and Ambrose Bierce's Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories (2000) and co-editor of The Portable American Realism Reader (1997). His other books include Coming to Grips with Huckleberry Finn (1993), Mark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction (1997) and Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination (2001).

Sommaire

Introduction:
The Historical Context by Tom Quirk
The Literary Context by James Nagel
Suggestions for Further Reading
Chronology

Part I: Regionalism and Local Color
MARK TWAIN, Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog
BRET HARTE, The Luck of Roaring Camp
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, The Minister's Housekeeper
GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE, Belles Demoiselles Plantation
CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON, Rodman the Keeper
SARAH ORNE JEWETT, A White Heron
MARY WILKINS FREEMAN, A Church Mouse
ROSE TERRY COOKE, How Celia Changed Her Mind
GRACE ELIZABETH KING, La Grande Demoiselle
KATE CHOPIN, Athenaise
ALICE DUNBAR-NELSON, The Goodness of Saint Rocque

Part II: Realism
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, Free Joe and the Rest of the World
SARAH ORNE JEWETT, Miss Tempy's Watchers
CHARLES W. CHESNUTT, The Sheriff's Children
HAMLIN GARLAND, The Return of a Private
AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
MARY WILKINS FREEMAN, The Revolt of 'Mother'
HAROLD FREDERIC, My Aunt Susan
HENRY JAMES, The Real Thing
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
KATE CHOPIN, Desiree's Baby
MADELENE YALE WYNNE, The Little Room
HENRY JAMES, The Beast in the Jungle
STEPHEN CRANE, The Blue Hotel
STEPHEN CRANE, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
ABRAHAM CAHAN, A Providential Match
ALICE DUNBAR-NELSON, Sister Josepha
CHARLES W. CHESTNUTT, The Wife of His Youth
ZITKALA-SAE, The Trial Path
EDITH WHARTON, The Other Two
WILLA CATHER, A Wagner Matinee
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, Editha
MARY AUSTIN, The Walking Woman
ZONA GALE, Nobody Rich, Nobody Poor
SUI SIN FAR, Mrs. Spring Fragrance

Part III: Naturalism
STEPHEN CRANE, The Men in the Storm
STEPHEN CRANE, An Experiment in Misery
STEPHEN CRANE, The Open Boat
HAMLIN GARLAND, Under the Lion's Paw
THEODORE DREISER, Curious Shifts of the Poor
JACK LONDON, The Law of Life
FRANK NORRIS, A Deal in Wheat
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, The Lynching of Jube Benson
JOHN M. OSKISON, The Problem of Old Harjo
JACK LONDON, To Build a Fire
THEODORE DREISER, The Second Choice

Biographical Notes
Notes on the Texts

Informations supplémentaires

GOR002639347
9780140268300
0140268308
The Portable American Realism Reader Various
Various
Portable Library
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
Penguin Books Ltd
19971201
640
N/A
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