The Realism War

Nineteenth-century Definitions of Romance

Romance

Romance (Continued)

Nineteenth-Century Definitions of Realism

Nineteenth-Century Definitions of Realism

Nineteenth-Century Definitions of Realism, continued

Novel of Realism I

Novel of Realism II

Romance and Realism: Taste and Class

Prevalence of Realism

   Gilder at Mark Twain’s 70^th Birthday Celebration

W. D. Howells

Howells’s Early Novels

Howells on Realism

The Ideal Grasshopper

The Smiling Aspects of Life

Howells on James (Century 1882)

The Reaction

James on Howells (1867)

James on Howells (1886)

 Henry James and Realism

From “The Art of Fiction”

From “The Art of Fiction”

The War in the Press

Mark Twain

Defending Realism

Attacking Realism

Attacking Realism (England)

Attack on Howells I

Attack on Howells II: William Roscoe Thayer

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Charles Dudley Warner, “Editor’s Drawer”

Maurice Thompson: Realism As Disease.

Reaction Against Realism: The Turn Toward Romanticism

Howells to James, 1915