Съдържание:
  • The novel and its future / George Parsons Lathrop
  • Modern fiction / Charles Dudley Warner
  • The art of fiction / Henry James
  • A typical novel / Hamilton Wright Mabie
  • Selections from the "Editor's study" / William Dean Howells
  • Realism and romance / James Lane Allen
  • Certain tendencies in current literature / Richard Watson Gilder
  • The new battle of the books / George Pellew
  • Selections from The ethics of literary art / Maurice Thompson
  • Realism in literature and art / Clarence Darrow
  • The progressive realism of American fiction / H.H. Boyesen
  • Productive conditions of American literature / Hamlin Garland
  • The new story-tellers and the doom of realism / William Roscoe Thayer
  • Three essays on naturalism / Frank Norris
  • The responsibilites of the novelist / Frank Norris
  • True art speaks plainly / Theodore Dreiser
  • The naturalism of Mr. Dreiser / Stuart P. Sherman
  • The art of Theodeore Dresiser / Randolph Bourne
  • William Dean Howells and the realism of the commonplace / V.L. Parrington
  • Naturalism in American fiction / V.L. Parrington
  • The opening struggle for realism / Alfred Kazin
  • "Not men" : a natural history of American naturalism / Malcolm Cowley
  • Reality in America / Lionel Trilling
  • Some observations on naturalism, so called, in fiction / James T. Farrell
  • Taine in America / Everett Carter
  • New ideas in the novel / Charles C. Walcutt
  • Norris historically viewed / Richard Chase
  • Mark Twain and the earlier realism / Robert Falk
  • American realism defined / Harold H. Kolb, Jr.
  • "Realism" : toward a definition / Edwin H. Cady
  • From document to symbol : Zola and American naturalism / Frederick J. Hoffman
  • American literary naturalism : the example of Dreiser / Donald Pizer
  • Realism / Alfred Habegger
  • The country of the blue / Eric J. Sundquist
  • Preface and casting out the outcast : naturalism and the brute / June Howard
  • Realism and "Absent things in American life" / Amy Kaplan
  • Black and white strangers / Kenneth W. Warren
  • Expanding the canon of American realism / Elizabeth Ammons.