Contributors
Introduction
Keith Newlin
Part I: Contexts of Realisms
1. Transnational Precursors of American Realism
Renate von Bardeleben
2. American Realism and Gender
Donna M. Campbell
3. The Feminine Origins of American Literary Realism
Sophia Forster
4. Realism and the Uses of Humor
John Bird
5. Local Color, World-System; or, American Realism at the Periphery
Mark Storey
6. Aesthetic Slippage in Realism and Naturalism
Anita Duneer
7. Realism as Modernism
Brad Evans
Part II: American Realisms
8. Native American Realism
Lee Schweninger
9. African American Realism
Christine Wooley
10. Ghetto Realism-and Beyond
Lori Harrison-Kahan
11. Asian American Realism
Julia H. Lee
12. The Politics of U.S. Latino Literature and American Realism
Ramón J. Guerra
13. Ethnic Caricature and the Comic Sensibility
Jean Lee Cole
14, Racial Realism
Jolie A. Sheffer
Part III: Selling Realism
15. The Realism Wars in the New York Periodical Press
Mark Noonan
16. Realism and the Profession of Authorship
Graham Thompson
17. Realism's American Readers, 1860-1914
Charles Johanningsmeier
18. The Censorship of Realist and Naturalist Novels, Then and Now
Caren Town
Part IV: Representing the Real
19. Science and Aesthetics in American Realism
Andrew Hebard
20. Realist Temporalities and the Distant Past
Melanie Dawson
21. Spaces of Consumption in American Literary Realism
Gary Totten
22. Dwelling in American Realism
Elif Armbruster
23. Realism and Medicine
Phillip Barrish
24. Realism and the New Woman
Leslie Petty
25. Realism and the Middle-Class Balancing Act
Patrick Chura
Part V: Realism and the Other Arts
26. Realism and Poetry
Jonathan Barron
27. The Evolution of American Dramatic Realism
Eileen Herrmann
28. Visual Art, Intertextuality, and Authorship in the Golden Age of
Illustration
Adam Sonstegard
29. American Realism and Photography
Astrid Böger
30. Realist Literature, Painting, and Immediacy
Peter Betjemann
31. Realism and the Cinematic Gaze
Nicolas S. Witschi
Part VI: Pedagogical Issues
32. Teaching Literary Realism in Transnational America
Nathaniel Cadle
33. Teaching American Realism in Germany
Klaus H. Schmidt
34. Teaching and Researching American Literature and American
Realism in China
Yuping Wang
35. Realism 2.0
Augusta Rohrbach
Index