List of Contributors Chronology Introduction: The Problem of Definition PART ONE: HISTORICAL CONTEXTS 1 The American Background 2 The European Background PART TWO: CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL ISSUES 3 Recent Critical Approaches 4 Expanding the Canon of American Realism PART THREE: CASE STUDIES 5 The Portrait of a Lady and The Rise of Silas Lapham:The Company They Kept 6 The Realism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 7 The Red Badge of Courage and McTeague:Passage to Modernity 8 What More Can Carrie What? Naturalistic Ways of Consuming Women 9 The Awakening and The House of Mirth: Plotting Experience and Experiencing Plot 10 The Call of the Wild and The Jungle: Jack Londons and Upton Sinclairs Animal and Human Jungles 11 Troubled Black Humanity in The Souls of Black Folk and The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man Further Reading Index