Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-205) and index.
Contents:
Toward modernism: Stephen Crane and Gertrude Stein. 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.
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