Documents of Modern Literary Realism / / ed. by George Joseph Becker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• MitwirkendeR: Agosti, Héctor P.,; Alas, Leopoldo,; Alexis, Paul,; Bazán, Emilia Pardo,; Belinsky, Vissarion,; Brasil, Jaime,; Chernishevsky, N. G.,; Cowley, Malcolm,; Desnoyers, Fernand,; Dreiser, Theodore,; Duranty, Edmond,; Eliot, George,; Engels, Friedrich,; Flaubert, Gustave,; Galdós, Benito Pérez,; Garland, Hamlin,; Goncourt, Edmond de,; Goncourt, Jules de,; Gorky, Maxim,; Gosse, Edmund,; Hart, Heinrich,; Hart, Julius,; Heller, Erich,; Howells, William Dean,; Huysmans, J.-K.,; James, Henry,; Lemonnier, Léon,; Lilly, W. S.,; Loomis, Roger Sherman,; Mabie, Hamilton Wright,; Maupassant, Guy de,; McDowall, Arthur,; Proust, Marcel,; Rahv, Philip,; Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin,; Schreiner, Olive,; Shaw, George Bernard,; Sherman, Stuart P.,; Strindberg, August,; Taine, Hippolyte,; Tolstoy, Leo,; Vogüé, E.-M. de,; Zola, Emile,
• HerausgeberIn: Becker, George Joseph,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1963
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1860
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (622 p.)

Using selections by American, British, French, German, Russian, Scandinavian, Spanish, Portuguese, and South American critics and authors, Professor Becker illustrates how realism arose as a reaction to romanticism, and how the practitioners of realism developed conflicting ideas about the means the...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part One. The Impulse toward Realism
• On Realistic Poetry
• "Life and Aesthetics"
• "On Realism"
• On Realism
• Two Views of of Madame Bovary
• "The World of Balzac"
• On Realism
• On True Novels
• On Realism
• "Ideals and Idealists"
• On Truth in Fiction
• On Veritism
• Contemporary Society as Novelistic Material
• "True Art Speaks Plainly"
• Part Two. The Battle Over Naturalism
• On the Rougon-Macquart Series
• "The Experimental Novel"
• "Naturalism in the Theatre"
• "Emile Zola and L'Assommoir"
• "Nana"
• Levels of Realism
• "The Lower Elements"
• "For and Against Zola"
• On Spanish Realism
• What Naturalism Is Not
• "The New Naturalism"
• "A Typical Novel"
• On Russian and French Realism
• "Manifesto of Five Against La Terre"
• Pernicious Literature
• "The Limits of Realism in Fiction"
• Naturalism in the Theatre
• Naturalism Is Not Dead
• "Guy de Maupassant"
• Part Three. Twentieth Century Revisions and Evaluations
• "A Natural History of American Naturalism"
• "The Naturalism of Mr. Dreiser"
• "A Literary Manifesto: The Populist Novel"
• On Portuguese Neo-Realism
• On Socialist Realism
• Comments on Socialist Realism
• "A Defense of Realism"
• "Emile Zola"
• "A Defense of Naturalism"
• On the Falsity of Realism
• "Conclusions and Applications"
• "Notes on the Decline of Naturalism"
• "The Realistic Fallacy"
• A Short Bibliography of History and Criticism
• Index