The Portable American Realism Reader,9780140268300

The Portable American Realism Reader

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ISBN13: 9780140268300
ISBN10: 0140268308
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-12-01
Publisher(s): Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Summary

The Portable American Realism Reader collects forty-seven of the best stories published in the United States between 1865 and 1918 - the most celebrated period of short fiction in American literary history. The editors have expanded the sweep of American Realism to include stories by women, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and Native-American writers.

Author Biography

James Nagel, Edison Distonguished Professor of English at the University of Georgia, has edited several collections on the works of Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Crane, and Hamlin Garland, as well as the Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition of John Steinbeck's Pastures of Heaven.

Tom Quirk is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the editor of the Penguin Classics editions of Mark Twain's Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches (1994) and Ambrose Bierce's Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories (2000) and co-editor of The Portable American Realism Reader (1997). His other books include Coming to Grips with Huckleberry Finn (1993), Mark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction (1997) and Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination (2001).

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Historical Context vii
Tom Quirk
The Literary Context xx
James Nagel
Suggestions for Further Reading xxxiii
Chronology xxxvii
PART I Regionalism and Local Color
``Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog''
3(5)
Mark Twain
``The Luck of Roaring Camp''
8(9)
Bret Harte
``The Story of the Old Ram''
17(5)
Mark Twain
``The Minister's Housekeeper''
22(10)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
``Belles Demoiselles Plantation''
32(15)
George Washington Cable
``Rodman the Keeper''
47(24)
Constance Fenimore Woolson
``A White Heron''
71(9)
Sarah Orne Jewett
``A Church Mouse''
80(13)
Mary Wilkins Freeman
``How Celia Changed Her Mind''
93(17)
Rose Terry Cooke
``La Grande Demoiselle''
110(6)
Grace Elizabeth King
``Athenaise''
116(27)
Kate Chopin
``The Goodness of Saint Rocque''
143(8)
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
PART II Realism
``Free Joe and the Rest of the World''
151(10)
Joel Chandler Harris
``Miss Tempy's Watchers''
161(9)
Sarah Orne Jewett
``The Sheriff's Children''
170(15)
Charles W. Chesnutt
``The Return of a Private''
185(15)
Hamlin Garland
``An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge''
200(8)
Ambrose Bierce
``The Revolt of `Mother'''
208(14)
Mary Wilkins Freeman
``My Aunt Susan''
222(11)
Harold Frederic
``The Real Thing''
233(21)
Henry James
``The Yellow Wallpaper''
254(15)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
``Desiree's Baby''
269(5)
Kate Chopin
``The Little Room''
274(11)
Madelene Yale Wynne
``The Beast in the Jungle''
285(37)
Henry James
``The Blue Hotel''
322(24)
Stephen Crane
``The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky''
346(10)
Stephen Crane
``A Providential Match''
356(18)
Abraham Cahan
``Sister Josepha''
374(6)
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
``The Wife of His Youth''
380(11)
Charles W. Chesnutt
``The Trial Path''
391(4)
Zitkala-Sa
``The Other Two''
395(10)
Edith Wharton
``A Wagner Matinee''
405(7)
Willa Cather
``Editha''
412(12)
William Dean Howells
``The Walking Woman''
424(7)
Mary Austin
``Nobody Rich, Nobody Poor''
431(7)
Zona Gale
```Mrs. Spring Fragrance''
438(13)
Sui Sin Far
PART III Naturalism
``The Men in the Storm''
451(6)
Stephen Crane
``An Experiment in Misery''
457(9)
Stephen Crane
``The Open Boat''
466(21)
Stephen Crane
``Under the Lion's Paw''
487(12)
Hamlin Garland
``Curious Shifts of the Poor''
499(9)
Theodore Dreiser
``The Law of Life''
508(6)
Jack London
``A Deal in Wheat''
514(10)
Frank Norris
``The Lynching of Jube Benson''
524(7)
Paul Laurence Dunbar
``The Problem of Old Harjo''
531(6)
John M. Oskison
``To Build a Fire''
537(14)
Jack London
``The Second Choice''
551(18)
Theodore Dreiser
Biographical Notes 569(20)
Notes on the Texts 589

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