Introduction：The Problem of Definition 1
CONTENTS 7
List of Contributors 7
Cbronology 8
DONALD PIZER 21
PART ONE： HISTORICAL CONTEXTS 21
1 The American Background LOUIS J．BUDD 21
2 The European Background RICHARD LEHAN 47
PART TWO： CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL ISSUES 77
3 Recent Critical Approaches MICHAEL ANESKO 77
4 Expanding the Canon of American Realism ELIZABETH AMMONS 95
PART THREE：CASE STUDIES 117
5 The Portrait ofa Lady andTbe Rise of Silas Lapbam：The Company They Kept JOHN W．CROWLEY 117
6 The Realism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn TOM QUIRK 138
7 The Red Badge of Courage and McTeague：Passage to Modernity J．C．LEVENsON 154
8 What More Can Carrie Want？Naturalistic Ways of Consuming Women BLANCHE H．GELFANT 178
9 The Awakening and The House ofMirth：Plotting Experience and Experiencing Plot BARBARA HOCHMAN 211
10 The Call of the Wild and The Jungle：Jack London's 236
and Upton Sinclair's Animal and Human Jungles JACQUELINE TAVERNIER-COURBIN 236
11 Troubled Black Humanity in The Souls ofBlack Folk and The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man KENNETH W．WARREN 263
Further Reading 278
Index 281