Selected Bibliography

Alter, Robert. Partial magic: The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre. Berkeley: U of California P, 1975. PN3340 A4

Becker, George J. Documents of Modern Literary Realism. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1963. PN56.R3 B4

Bell, Michael Davitt. The Problem of American Realism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993.

Benardete, Jane. American Realism. NY: Putnam, 1972. PS374 R37 B4

Berthoff, Warner. The Ferment of Realism; American Literature, 1884-1919. NY: Free P 1965. PS214 .B4

Borus, Daniel H. Writing Realism: Howells, James, and Norris in the Mass Market. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1989.

Brodhead, Richard. Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993.

Cady, Edwin H. The Light of Common Day; Realism in American Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana UP 1971. PS374.R37 C3

Carter, Everett. Howells and the Age of Realism. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1954. PS2033 .C3

Fisher, Philip K. Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel. New York: Oxford U P, 1985.

Glazener, Nancy. Reading for Realism: The History of a Literary Institution. Durham: Duke UP,1997.

Greenwald, Elissa. Realism and the Romance: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and American Fiction. Ann Arbor: UMI Research P, 1989. PS 374 .R37 G7

Harris, Susan K. 19th-Century American Women's Novels: interpretative Strategies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990.

Habegger, Alfred. Gender, Fantasy, and Realism in American Literature. New York: Columbia UP, 1982.

Hirsch, John C. "Realism Renewed." Journal of American Studies 25 (1991): 235-43.

Jones, Gavin. Strange Talk: The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America. Berkeley: U. of California P, 1999.

Kaplan, Amy. The Social Construction of American Realism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1988. PS 374 .R37 K37

Kolb, Harold H. The Illusion of Life; American Realism as a Literary Form. Charlottesville, UP of Virginia, 1969. PS214 .K63

Levine, George. "Realism Reconsidered." The Theory of the Novel: New Essays. Ed. John Halperin. New York: Oxford U P, 1974. 233-56.

McKay, Janet H. Narration and Discourse in American Realistic Fiction. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1982. PS374 .R37 M3

Murphy, Brenda. American Realism and American Drama, 1880-1940. NY: Cambridge UP, 1987. PS338 .R42 M87

Nettels, Elsa. Language and Gender in American Fiction: Howells, James, Wharton, and Cather. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1997.

Pizer, Donald. ed. The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturlaism, Howells to London. NY: Cambridge UP, 1995.

- - -. Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth Century American Literature. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1966. PS214 .P5

- - -, and Earl Harbert. eds. "American Realists and Naturalists." Vol. 12 of Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale Research, 1982.

Quirk, Tom, and Gary Scharnhorst. eds. American Realism and the Canon. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1994.

Salomon, Roger B. "Realism as Disinheritance: Twain, Howells and James." American Quarterly 16 (Winter 1964): 531-44.

Shi, David. Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850-1920. NY: Oxford UP, 1995.

Stein, Allen F. After the Vows Were Spoken: Marriage in American Literary Realism. Columbus: Ohio UP, 1984.

Stephens, Gary. "Haunted Americana: The Endurance of American Realism." Partisan Review 44 (1977): 71-84.

Sundquist, Eric J. American Realism: New Essays. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1982. PS374 .R37 A47

Taylor, Gordon O. The Passages of Thought: Psychological Representation in the American Novel, 1870-1900. NY: Oxford UP, 1969.

Thomas, Brook. American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract. Berkeley: U of California P, 1997.

Tuttleton, James W. The Novel of Manners in America. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1972.

Warren, Kenneth. Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993.

MLA Style Citation of this Web Page

Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 5: Late Nineteenth Century - American Realism - Selected Bibliography." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. URL:http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap5/5biblio.html (provide page date or date of your login).  

| Top | Back | Chap 5 | Alphabetical List | Contents | PAL Home | Literature | Home |