The Problem of American Realism
Subtitle: Studies in the Cultural History of a Literary Idea
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: January 1, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780226042022
First sentence: It is pretty generally agreed, at least in standard literary histories, that the principal American realists of the first generation-the generation of American novelists born in the 1830s and 1840s, those who began their careers after the Civil War and came to first full maturity in the 1880s-are William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and Henry James.