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... and the Front: Charlotte Forten s Civil War Diary Entries, pp. ) and a Southern white woman (Sarah E. Gardner s Forget to Weep My Dead : Mary Chesnut s Civil War Reading, pp. ). In Legal Realisms: e American Novel under Reconstruction (Oxford) Christine Holbo extends the insights of Brook omas s...

... questions of artistic value. This process of recovering neglected works has opened the canon, and critics are thus able to define, redefine, and question literary movements such as realism and naturalism. Despite this shift canonical authors are not ignored, but they are studied in new ways; often the focus...

...Roark Mulligan © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 13  Late-19th-Century Literature Roark Mulligan A struggle to define realism has continued to occupy scholars. The dean of American literature, W. D. Howells, has remained a central figure in the discussion, which has shifted...

... Vincent Ogé ( ), an epic poem that connects late- th-century Haiti and the mid- th-century United States as nations revolting against slavery. In Reconstruction Matters in the Revival of Civil War Literature (American Literary Realism [ALR] : ) Brook omas notes a growing interest in Civil War...

...Nicolas S. Witschi Duke University Press 2008 12  Late-19th-Century Literature Nicolas S. Witschi Two major biographies, a new journal, and an ever-increasing interest in the various ways in which writers made use of the idea of realism set the tone for scholarship this year...

...Terry Oggel 13 Late-19th-Century Literature Terry Oggel Whether the issue was revising notions of regionalism and realism or looking at literature through the lenses of other narrative modes, estab- lished standards were under attack from every direction. Here and there, some of the older...

... American literature and in the examination of young-adult literature, areas in which literary scholars continue to search for understanding of the present through the past. i Realists and Naturalists Two international publications assess the state of realism and natural- ism, both finding a shifting...

... Harrell Jr. examines the novel in the context of its attention to ethical representa- tions in “ ‘The Fruit of My Own Imagination’: Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition in the Age of Realism” ( pp. 26–41), while in “ ‘I Shall Leave the Realm of Fiction’: Conjure, Genre, and Passing...

... of Chesnut’s text as a significant contribution to liter- ary history, particularly in its participation in the shift from antebel- lum sentiment to realism. Also providing literary evidence of how the war affected lives, Rebecca Harding Davis’s Stories of the Civil War Era: Selected Writings from...

... to define the outlines of genres such as “realism” and “naturalism” and “local color” are diminishing, though they certainly aren’t entirely absent. A smattering of scholarship in ani- mal and food studies is also beginning to appear, while the study of law and literature exhibits a slightly higher...

... of progressive political opposition. As such it decenters social realism as the form of proletarian literature. Significantly, the formal aspects of this experimen- tal writing result in part from the influence of technological amusements such as film. Solomon argues that for writers such as Edward Dahlberg...

..., Hamlin Garland, Harold Frederic) to a harsher urban Michael J. Kiskis 283 realism (Jacob Riis, Alfred Henry Lewis). The urban audience’s fascina- tion with the rural and urban ‘‘other’ ’ was central; that sense of the other aVected elite readers’ sense of place...

... of John Bird 93 pure realism, both novels are generic hybrids, blends of romanticism and realism. He examines the ways both writers wrestled with factual purity, going back to Howells’s reviews of Twain’s earlier work, to his work as Twain’s editor on “A True Story” and “Old Times on the Mis...

.... There is a trend this year to identify sentimental texts as the precursor for American realism. In ‘‘Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Realism, and Literary Debates on Changing Gender Roles pp. 87–101 in Realism and Its Discontents, Susan V. Donaldson traces the origin of the con- structed masculinities in postwar...

... sponsored by the Wharton and Cather organizations continue to initiate scholarly projects, resulting this year in two collections of essays on Cather. Ongo- ing e√orts to relate Wharton and Cather to the literary movements of realism, sentimentalism, and modernism accompany studies of their relation...

... 283 acknowledged age of literary realism also happens to have been the great age of ethnic caricature? Wonham’s answer, developed through a series of chapters on W. D. Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James, Edith Whar- ton, and Charles Chesnutt, brings to light a delicate interdependence between...

... from the long-held method of clustering scholarship around certain writers. The chapter still covers realism and naturalism, but those literary movements no longer dominate scholarly writing about the period. More pressing are matters of ethnicity and gender and questions about the ways...

... the usual stage versus film genre debate. Unfortunately, while giving interesting background on early-20th- century realism in relation to film, the book doesn’t address the genre issue directly or justify its choices for inclusion. As a result, each essay must find its own way. So the first, Amanda...

.... State of Fear by Michael Crichton “states an undecid- able contest between scientific realism and postmodern relativism,” a strategy presented in a more popular form by Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. Although Cormac McCarthy faces reality head-on in The Road, Jonathan Franzen stimulates...

.... Several essays relate specifically to A Hazard of New Fortunes, though other works attract some interest, especially in relation to Howells’s realism. Cynthia Stretch in ‘‘Illusions of a Public, Locations of Conflict: Feeling Like Populace in William Dean Howells’ A Hazard of New...