Includes bibliographical references (p. 599-603) and index.
Contents
Introduction : Modern realism as a literary movement -- On realistic poetry / Vissarion Belinsky -- From Life and aesthetics / N.G. Chernishevsky -- "On realism" / Fernand Desnoyers -- On realism / Gustav Flaubert -- Two views of Madam Bovary / Edmund Duranty and Charles Sainte-Beuve -- "The world of Balzac" / Hippolyte Taine -- On realism / George Eliot -- On true novels / Edmond and Jules De Goncourt -- On realism / Olive Schreiner -- "Ideals and idealists" / George Bernard Shaw -- On truth in fiction / William Dean Howells -- On veritism / Hamlin Garland -- Contemporary society as novelistic material / Benito Perez Galdos -- "True art speaks plainly" / Theodore Dreiser -- On the Rougon-Macquart series ; "The experimental novel" ; "Naturalism in the theatre" / Emil Zola -- "Emile Zola and L'Assommoir" / J.-K. Huysmans -- "Nana" / Henry James -- Levels of realism / Edmond De Goncourt -- "The lower elements" / Guy de Maupassant -- "For and against Zola" / Heinrich and Julius Hart -- On Spanish realism / Emilia Pardo Bazan -- What naturalism is not / Leopoldo Alas -- "The new naturalism" / W.S.Lilly -- "A typical novel" / Hamilton Wright Mabie --
On Russian and French realism ; "Manifesto of five against La terre" / E.-M. De Vogue -- "Pernicious literature" / National Vigilance Association -- "The limits of realism in fiction" / Edmund Gosse -- Naturalism in the theatre / August Strindberg -- Naturalism is not dead / Paul Alexis -- "Guy de Maupassant" / Leo Tolstoy -- "A natural history of American naturalism" / Malcolm Cowley -- "The naturalism of Mr. Dreiser" / Stuart P. Sherman -- "A literary manifesto : the populist novel" / Leon Lemonnier -- On Portuguese neo-realism / Jaime Brasil -- On socialist realism / Friedrich Engels -- On socialist realism / Maxim Gorky and others -- "A defense of realism" / Hector P. Agosti -- "Emile Zola" / Henry James -- "A defense of naturalism" / Roger Sherman Loomis -- On falsity of realism / Marcel Proust -- "Conclusions and applications" / Arthur McDowall -- "Notes on the decline of naturalism" / Philip Rahv -- "The realistic fallacy" / Erich Heller.
