Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-205) and index.
Contents
Sentimentalism versus professionalism : Augusta J. Evans and Henry James -- Contending versions of realism : Rebecca Harding Davis and William Dean Howells -- Local color and the ethnographic gaze : Sarah Orne Jewett, Abraham Cahan, and Charles W. Chesnutt -- Novels of race and racism : Mark Twain, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and James Weldon Johnson -- New women and new stories : Edith Wharton and Pauline Hopkins -- Naturalism and novels of besieged white masculinity : Theodore Dreiser and Frank Norris -- Toward modernism : Stephen Crane and Gertrude Stein.
