{"product_id":"the-portable-american-realism-reader-isbn-9780140268300","title":"The Portable American Realism Reader","description":"During the pivotal period of America's international emergence, between the Civil War and WWI, the aligned literary movements of Realism and Naturalism not only shaped the national literature of the age, but also left an indelible and far-reaching influence on twentieth-century American and world literature. Seeking to strip narrative from pious sentimentalities, and, according to William Dean Howells, to \"paint life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and relation,\" Realism is best represented by this volume's masterly pieces by Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin, and Willa Cather among others. The joining of Realist methods with the theories of Marx, Darwin, and Spencer to reveal the larger forces (biological, evolutionary, historical) which move humankind, are exemplified here in the fiction of such writers as Jack London, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser.Introduction:\u003cbr\u003eThe Historical Context by Tom Quirk\u003cbr\u003eThe Literary Context by James Nagel \u003cbr\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading\u003cbr\u003eChronology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Regionalism and Local Color\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMARK TWAIN, \"Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog\"\u003cbr\u003eBRET HARTE, \"The Luck of Roaring Camp\"\u003cbr\u003eHARRIET BEECHER STOWE, \"The Minister's Housekeeper\"\u003cbr\u003eGEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE, \"Belles Demoiselles Plantation\"\u003cbr\u003eCONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON, \"Rodman the Keeper\"\u003cbr\u003eSARAH ORNE JEWETT, \"A White Heron\"\u003cbr\u003eMARY WILKINS FREEMAN, \"A Church Mouse\"\u003cbr\u003eROSE TERRY COOKE, \"How Celia Changed Her Mind\"\u003cbr\u003eGRACE ELIZABETH KING, \"La Grande Demoiselle\"\u003cbr\u003eKATE CHOPIN,\" Athénaïse\"\u003cbr\u003eALICE DUNBAR-NELSON, \"The Goodness of Saint Rocque\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Realism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, \"Free Joe and the Rest of the World\"\u003cbr\u003eSARAH ORNE JEWETT, \"Miss Tempy's Watchers\"\u003cbr\u003eCHARLES W. CHESNUTT, \"The Sheriff's Children\"\u003cbr\u003eHAMLIN GARLAND, \"The Return of a Private\"\u003cbr\u003eAMBROSE BIERCE, \"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge\"\u003cbr\u003eMARY WILKINS FREEMAN, \"The Revolt of 'Mother'\"\u003cbr\u003eHAROLD FREDERIC, \"My Aunt Susan\"\u003cbr\u003eHENRY JAMES, \"The Real Thing\"\u003cbr\u003eCHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, \"The Yellow Wallpaper\"\u003cbr\u003eKATE CHOPIN, \"Désirée's Baby\"\u003cbr\u003eMADELENE YALE WYNNE, \"The Little Room\"\u003cbr\u003eHENRY JAMES, \"The Beast in the Jungle\"\u003cbr\u003eSTEPHEN CRANE, \"The Blue Hotel\"\u003cbr\u003eSTEPHEN CRANE, \"The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky\"\u003cbr\u003eABRAHAM CAHAN, \"A Providential Match\"\u003cbr\u003eALICE DUNBAR-NELSON, \"Sister Josepha\"\u003cbr\u003eCHARLES W. CHESTNUTT, \"The Wife of His Youth\"\u003cbr\u003eZITKALA-SÄ, \"The Trial Path\"\u003cbr\u003eEDITH WHARTON, \"The Other Two\"\u003cbr\u003eWILLA CATHER, \"A Wagner Matinée\"\u003cbr\u003eWILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, \"Editha\"\u003cbr\u003eMARY AUSTIN, \"The Walking Woman\"\u003cbr\u003eZONA GALE, \"Nobody Rich, Nobody Poor\"\u003cbr\u003eSUI SIN FAR, \"Mrs. Spring Fragrance\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Naturalism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSTEPHEN CRANE, \"The Men in the Storm\"\u003cbr\u003eSTEPHEN CRANE, \"An Experiment in Misery\"\u003cbr\u003eSTEPHEN CRANE, \"The Open Boat\"\u003cbr\u003eHAMLIN GARLAND, \"Under the Lion's Paw\"\u003cbr\u003eTHEODORE DREISER, \"Curious Shifts of the Poor\"\u003cbr\u003eJACK LONDON, \"The Law of Life\"\u003cbr\u003eFRANK NORRIS, \"A Deal in Wheat\"\u003cbr\u003ePAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, \"The Lynching of Jube Benson\"\u003cbr\u003eJOHN M. OSKISON, \"The Problem of Old Harjo\"\u003cbr\u003eJACK LONDON, \"To Build a Fire\"\u003cbr\u003eTHEODORE DREISER, \"The Second Choice\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBiographical Notes\u003cbr\u003eNotes on the Texts\u003c\/p\u003eJames 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom 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 \u003cb\u003eTales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches\u003c\/b\u003e (1994) and Ambrose Bierce's \u003cb\u003eTales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories\u003c\/b\u003e (2000) and co-editor of \u003cb\u003eThe Portable American Realism Reader\u003c\/b\u003e (1997). His other books include \u003cb\u003eComing to Grips with Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/b\u003e (1993), \u003cb\u003eMark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e (1997) and \u003cb\u003eNothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination\u003c\/b\u003e (2001).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302182506725,"sku":"NP9780140268300","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140268300.jpg?v=1767741005","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-portable-american-realism-reader-isbn-9780140268300","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}