@article{1398300,
      recid = {1398300},
      author = {Barrish, Phillip.},
      title = {The Cambridge introduction to American literary realism  [electronic resource] /},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, UK ;},
      pages = {1 online resource (xii, 225 p.) :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"Between the Civil War and the First World War, realism  was the most prominent form of American fiction. Realist  writers of the period include some of America's greatest,  such as Henry James, Edith Wharton and Mark Twain, but also  many lesser-known writers whose work still speaks to us  today, for instance Charles Chesnutt, Zitkala-Ša and Sarah  Orne Jewett. Emphasizing realism's historical context, this  introduction traces the genre's relationship with powerful,  often violent, social conflicts involving race, gender,  class and national origin. It also examines how the realist  style was created; the necessarily ambiguous relationship  between realism produced on the page and reality outside  the book; and the different, often contradictory, forms  'realism' took in literary works by different authors. The  most accessible yet sophisticated account of American  literary realism currently available, this volume will be  of great value to students, teachers and readers of the  American novel"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1398300},
}