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 70th
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