Introduction : The problem of definition / Donald Pizer
The American background / Louis J. Budd
The European background / Richard Lehan
Recent critical approaches / Michael Anesko
Expanding the canon of American realism / Elizabeth Ammons
The portrait of a lady and The rise of Silas Lapham : the company they kept / John W. Crowley
The realism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Tom Quirk
The red badge of courage & McTeague : passage to modernity / J.C. Levenson
What more can Carrie want? Naturalistic ways of consuming women / Blanche H. Gelfant
The awakening & The house of mirth : plotting experience and experiencing plot / Barbara Hochman
The call of the wild & The jungle : Jack London's & Upton Sinclair's animal and human jungles / Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin
Troubled black humanity in The souls of black folk & The autobiography of an ex-colored man / Kenneth W. Warren.