American Realism and Naturalism

Selected Bibliography—Book-length Works

English 519, Karen Roggenkamp

See also related bibliographies on individual authors and on “local color” or regionalism.  See also MLA database for articles on realism, naturalism, and individual authors.

Balkun, Mary McAleer.  The American Counterfeit: Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture.  Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2006.

Barrish, Phillip.  American Literary Realism: Critical Theory and Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995.  Cambridge: Oxford UP, 2001.

Becker, George, ed. Documents of Modern Literary Realism.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1963.

Broadhead, Richard.  Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993.

Bell, Michael Davitt.  The Problem of American Realism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993.

Becker, George, ed.  Documents of Modern Literary Realism.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1963.

Berthoff, Werner.  The Ferment of Realism: American Literature, 1884-1919.  New York: Free Press, 1965.

Boeckmann, Cathy.  A Question of Character: Scientific Racism and the Genres of American Fiction, 1892-1912.  Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2000.

Borus, Daniel.  Writing Realism: Howells, James and Norris in the Mass Market.  Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1989.

Cady, Edwin H.  The Light of Common Day: Realism in American Fiction.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1971.

Campbell, Donna.  Resisting Regionalism: Gender and Naturalism in American Fiction, 1885-1915.  Columbus: U of Ohio P, 1995.

Carter, Everett.  Howells and the Age of Realism.  Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1954.

Chase, Richard.  The American Novel and its Tradition.  Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor, 1957.

Conder, John J.  Naturalism in American Fiction: The Classic Phase.  Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1984.

Corkin, Stanley.  Realism and the Birth of the Modern United States: Cinema, Literature, and Culture.  Athens: U of Georgia P, 1996.

Den Tandt, Christophe.  The Urban Sublime in American Literary Naturalism.  Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1998.

Dudley, John.  A Man’s Game: Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism.  Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2004.

Fetterley, Judith and Marjorie Pryse.  Writing out of Place: Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture.  Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2003.

Fisher, Philip K.  Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel.  New York: Oxford UP, 1985.

Fleissner, Jennifer L.  Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2004.

Geismar, Maxwell.  Rebels and Ancestors: The American Novel, 1890-1915.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1953.

Giles, James Richard.  The Naturalistic Inner-City Novel in America: Encounters with the Fat Man.  Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1995.

Glass, Loren Daniel.  Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States, 1880-1980.  New York: New York UP, 2004.

Glazener, Nancy.  Reading for Realism: The History of a Literary Institution.  Durham: Duke UP, 1997.

Habegger, Alfred.  Gender, Fantasy, and Realism in American Literature.  New York: Columbia UP, 1982.

Hochman, Barbara.  Getting at the Author: Reimagining Books and Reading in the Age of American Realism.  Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2001.

Howard, June.  Form and History in American Literary Naturalism.  Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1985.

Jones, Gavin.  Strange Talk: The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1999.

Kaplan, Amy.  The Social Construction of American Realism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1988.

Kolb, Harold H., Jr.  The Illusion of Life: American Realism as a Literary Form.  Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1969.

Lawlor, Mary.  Recalling the Wild: Naturalism and the Closing of the American West.  New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2000.

Lehan, Richard Daniel.  Realism and Naturalism: The Novel in an Age of Transition.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2005.

Levine, Lawrence.  Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1988.

Link, Eric Carl.  The Vast and Terrible Drama: American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century.  Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2004.

Martin, Jay.  Harvests of Change: American Literature, 1865-1914.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1967.

Martin, Ronald E.  American Literature and the Universe of Force.  Durham: Duke UP, 1981.

McKay, Janet H.  Narration and Discourse in American Realistic Fiction.  Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1982.

Michaels, Walter Benn.  The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1987.

Mitchell, Lee Clark.  Determined Fictions: American Literary Naturalism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1988.

Murphy, Brenda.  American Realism and American Drama, 1880-1940.  New York: Cambridge UP, 1987.

Nettels, Elsa.  Language and Gender in American Fiction: Howells, James, Wharton, and Cather.  Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1997.

Orvell, Miles.  The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940.  Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1989..

Papke, Mary E., ed.  Twisted from the Ordinary: Essays on American Literary Naturalism.  Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2003.

Pizer, Donald, ed.  The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism: Howells to London.  New York: Cambridge UP, 1995.

- - -.  Documents of American Realism and Naturalism.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1998.

- - -.  Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1966.

- - -.  The Theory and Practice of American Literary Naturalism: Selected Essays and Reviews.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1993.

Quirk, Tom and Gary Scharnhorst, eds.  American Realism and the Canon.  Newark: U of Delaware P, 1994.

Roggenkamp, Karen.  Narrating the News: New Journalism and Literary Genre in Late Nineteenth-Century Newspapers and Fiction.  Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2005.

Rohrbach, Augusta.  Truth Stranger than Fiction: Race, Realism, and the U. S. Literary Marketplace.  New York: Palgrave, 2002.

Shi, David E.  Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850-1920.  New York: Oxford UP, 1995.

Sundquist, Eric, ed.  American Realism: New Essays.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1982.

Thomas, Brook.  American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1997.

Trachtenberg, Alan.  The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age.  New York: Hill and Wang, 1982.

Walcutt, Charles Child.  American Literary Naturalism: A Divided Stream.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1956.

Wadsworth, Sarah.  In the Company of Books: Literature and its “Classes” in Nineteenth-Century America.  Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2006

Warren, Kenneth.  Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993.

Wilson, Christopher.  The Labor of Words: Literary Professionalism in the Progressive Era.  Athens: U of Georgia P, 1985.

Wonham, Henry B.  Playing the Races: Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism.  New York: Oxford UP, 2004.

Ziff, Larzer.  The American 1890s: Life and Times of a Lost Generation.  New York: Viking, 1966.