Table Of Contents:
Preface xiii(2)
Editorial Note xv
PART ONE: THE CRITICAL DEBATE, 1874-1950 3(260)
The Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, 1874-1914 3(178)
INTRODUCTION 3(15)

ONE THE NOVEL AND ITS FUTURE 18(15)

George Parsons Lathrop

TWO MODERN FICTION 33(12)

Charles Dudley Warner

THREE THE ART OF FICTION 45(15)

Henry James

FOUR A TYPICAL NOVEL 60(10)

Hamilton Wright Mabie

FIVE SELECTIONS FROM THE "EDITOR'S STUDY" 70(29)

William Dean Howells

SIX REALISM AND ROMANCE 99(5)

James Lane Allen

SEVEN CERTAIN TENDENCIES IN CURRENT LITERATURE 104(11)

Richard Watson Gilder

EIGHT THE NEW BATTLE OF THE BOOKS 115(7)

George Pellew

NINE SELECTIONS FROM THE ETHICS OF LITERARY ART 122(10)

Maurice Thompson

TEN REALISM IN LITERATURE AND ART 132(12)

Clarence Darrow

ELEVEN THE PROGRESSIVE REALISM OF AMERICAN FICTION 144(7)

H.H. Boyesen

TWELVE PRODUCTIVE CONDITIONS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE 151(8)

Hamlin Garland

THIRTEEN THE NEW STORY-TELLERS AND THE DOOM OF REALISM 159(8)

William Roscoe Thayer

FOURTEEN THREE ESSAYS ON NATURALISM 167(8)

Frank Norris

FIFTEEN THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE NOVELIST 175(4)

Frank Norris

SIXTEEN TRUE ART SPEAKS PLAINLY 179(2)

Theodore Dreiser
The Early Modern Period, 1915-1950 181(82)
INTRODUCTION 181(7)

SEVENTEEN THE NATURALISM OF MR. DREISER 188(9)

Stuart P. Sherman

EIGHTEEN THE ART OF THEODORE DREISER 197(4)

Randolph Bourne

NINETEEN WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS AND THE REALISM OF THE COMMONPLACE 201(10)

V.L. Parrington

TWENTY NATURALISM IN AMERICAN FICTION 211(4)

V.L. Parrington

TWENTY-ONE THE OPENING STRUGGLE FOR REALISM 215(10)

Alfred Kazin

TWENTY-TWO "NOT MEN": A NATURAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN NATURALISM 225(14)

Malcolm Cowley

TWENTY-THREE REALITY IN AMERICAN 239(12)

Lionel Trilling

TWENTY-FOUR SOME OBSERVATIONS ON NATURALISM, SO CALLED, IN FICTION 251(12)

James T. Farrell
PART TWO: MODERN ACADEMIC CRITICISM, 1951-1995 263(192)
INTRODUCTION 263(7)

TWENTY-FIVE TAINE IN AMERICA 270(7)

Everett Carter

TWENTY-SIX NEW IDEAS IN THE NOVEL 277(19)

Charles C. Walcutt

TWENTY-SEVEN NORRIS HISTORICALLY VIEWED 296(5)

Richard Chase

TWENTY-EIGHT MARK TWAIN AND THE EARLIER REALISM 301(8)

Robert Falk

TWENTY-NINE AMERICAN REALISM DEFINED 309(15)

Harold H. Kolb Jr.

THIRTY "REALISM": TOWARD A DEFINITION 324(12)

Edwin H. Cady

THIRTY-ONE FROM DOCUMENT TO SYMBOL: ZOLA AND AMERICAN NATURALISM 336(8)

Frederick J. Hoffman

THIRTY-TWO AMERICAN LITERARY NATURALISM: THE EXAMPLE OF DREISER 344(11)

Donald Pizer

THIRTY-THREE REALISM 355(11)

Alfred Habegger

THIRTY-FOUR THE COUNTRY OF THE BLUE 366(20)

Eric J. Sundquist

THIRTY-FIVE PREFACE AND CASTING OUT THE OUTCAST: NATURALISM AND THE BRUTE 386(18)

June Howard

THIRTY-SIX REALISM AND "ABSENT THINGS IN AMERICAN LIFE" 404(14)

Amy Kaplan

THIRTY-SEVEN BLACK AND WHITE STRANGERS 418(17)

Kenneth W. Warren

THIRTY-EIGHT EXPANDING THE CANON OF AMERICAN REALISM 435(20)

Elizabeth Ammons
Bibliography 455(2)
Index 457