The Portable American Realism Reader

By: Various, James Nagel (Editor), Tom Quirk (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 December 1997 | Edition Number 1

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During the pivotal period of America's international emergence, between the Civil War and WWI, the aligned literary movements of Realism and Naturalism not only shaped the national literature of the age, but also left an indelible and far-reaching influence on twentieth-century American and world literature.

Seeking to strip narrative from pious sentimentalities, and, according to William Dean Howells, to "(paint) life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and relation", Realism is best represented by this volume's masterly pieces by Mark Twain ("Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog"), Henry James ("The Beast in the Jungle"), Stephen Crane ("The Blue Hotel"), Kate Chopin ("Desiree's Baby"), and Sarah Orne Jewett ("A White Heron") among others. The joining of Realist methods with the theories of Marx, Darwin, and Spencer to reveal the larger forces (biological, evolutionary, historical) which move humankind, are exemplified here in the fiction of such writers as Jack London, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser.

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The Historical Context
The Literary Context
Suggestions for Further Reading
Chronology
Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog	p. 3
The Luck of Roaring Camp	p. 8
The Story of the Old Ram	p. 17
The Minister's Housekeeper	p. 22
Belles Demoiselles Plantation	p. 32
Rodman the Keeper	p. 47
A White Heron	p. 71
A Church Mouse	p. 80
How Celia Changed Her Mind	p. 93
La Grande Demoiselle	p. 110
Athenaise	p. 116
The Goodness of Saint Rocque	p. 143
Free Joe and the Rest of the World	p. 151
Miss Tempy's Watchers	p. 161
The Sheriff's Children	p. 170
The Return of a Private	p. 185
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge	p. 200
The Revolt of 'Mother'	p. 208
My Aunt Susan	p. 222
The Real Thing	p. 233
The Yellow Wallpaper	p. 254
Desiree's Baby	p. 269
The Little Room	p. 274
The Beast in the Jungle	p. 285
The Blue Hotel	p. 322
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky	p. 346
A Providential Match	p. 356
Sister Josepha	p. 374
The Wife of His Youth	p. 380
The Trial Path	p. 391
The Other Two	p. 395
A Wagner Matinee	p. 405
Editha	p. 412
The Walking Woman	p. 424
Nobody Rich, Nobody Poor	p. 431
Mrs. Spring Fragrance	p. 438
The Men in the Storm	p. 451
An Experiment in Misery	p. 457
The Open Boat	p. 466
Under the Lion's Paw	p. 487
Curious Shifts of the Poor	p. 499
The Law of Life	p. 508
A Deal in Wheat	p. 514
The Lynching of Jube Benson	p. 524
The Problem of Old Harjo	p. 531
To Build a Fire	p. 537
The Second Choice	p. 551
Biographical Notes	p. 569
Notes on the Texts	p. 589
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