Books in the American Literary Realism & Naturalism series

Collects reminiscences by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Stephen Crane that illuminate the life of this often misunderstood and misrepresented writer. The 75 reminiscences gathered here offer a much-needed account of Crane's life from a variety of viewpoints, as well as important information about the contributors themselves.

Paul Laurence Dunbar was arguably the most famous African American poet, novelist, and dramatist at the turn of the twentieth century and one of the earliest African American writers to receive national recognition and appreciation. These 250 transcribed and annotated letters reveal his personal and literary life.

Probes the ways in which two major periods in nineteenth-century American literature - Romanticism and Realism - have come to be understood and defined. Echoes of Emerson: Rethinking Realism in Twain, James, Wharton, and Cather traces the complex and unexplored relationship between American realism and the philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Provides an important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of realism. Although Chesnutt is typically acknowledged as the most prominent African American writer of the realist period, scholars have paid little attention to the central question of this study: what does it mean to call Chesnutt a realist?

Takes a new approach to the question of how female regionalist fictions represent "the economic" by situating them within traditions of classical political economic thought. The book's approach ultimately leads us to reconsider what we mean by the term "economic".