Documents of American realism and naturalism

Introduction: The late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 1874-1914.

1. The novel and its future.

2. Modern fiction.

3. The art of fiction.

4. A typical novel.

5. Selections from the "editor's study".

6. Realism and romance.

7. Certain tendencies in current literature.

8. The new battle of the books.

9. Selections from "The ethics of literary art".

10. Realism in literature and art.

11. The progressive realism of American fiction.

12. Productive conditions of American literature.

13. The new story-tellers and the doom of realism.

14. Three essays on naturalism.

15. The responsibilities of the novelist.

16. True art speaks plainly; The early modern period.

17. The naturalism of Mr. Dreiser.

18. The art of Theodore Dreiser.

19. William Dean Howells and the realism of the commonplace.

20. Naturalism in American fiction.

21. The opening struggle for realism.

22. "Not men": a natural history of American naturalism.

23. Reality in America.

24. Some observations on naturalism, so called, in fiction.

25. Taine in America.

26. New ideas in the novel.

27. Norris historically viewed.

28. Mark Twain and the earlier realism.

29. American realism defined.

30. "Realism": toward a definition.

31. From document tp symbol: Zola and American naturalism.

32. American literary naturalism: the example of Dreiser.

33. Realism.

34. The country of the blue.

35. Preface and casting out the outcast: naturalism and the brute.

36. Realism and "absent things in American life".

37. Black and white strangers.

38. Expanding the canon of American realism.