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Introduction: American literary realism
1. Literary precursors, literary contexts
2. The 'look of agony' and everyday middle-class life: three transitional works
3. Creating the 'odor' of the real: techniques of realism
4. Conflicting manners: high realism and social competition
5. 'Democracy in literature'? Literary regionalism
6. 'The blab of the pave': realism and the city
7. Crisis of agency: literary naturalism, economic change, 'masculinity'
8. 'Certain facts of life': realism and feminism
9. 'The unjust spirit of caste': realism and race
10. New Americans write realism
Conclusion: realisms after realism.

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