The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism by Donald Pizer

The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism by Donald Pizer

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This Companion examines a number of issues related to the terms realism and naturalism, which have long served to designate major late nineteenth-century American fiction. It includes ten essays that deal with the historical context, application, and expansion of this movement.

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The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism by Donald Pizer

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.
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ISBN 13 9780521438766
ISBN 10 0521438764
Title The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism
Author Donald Pizer
Series Cambridge Companions To Literature
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 1995-06-30
Number of pages 308
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