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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung An anthology of the American short story between the Civil War and World War I, containing 47 stories by 30 writers. There are introductory essays on the historical and literary context of the Age of Realism, a chronology, critical headnotes and minibiographies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Historical Context by Tom Quirk The Literary Context by James Nagel Suggestions for Further Reading Chronology Part I: Regionalism and Local Color MARK TWAIN, "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" BRET HARTE, "The Luck of Roaring Camp" HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, "The Minister's Housekeeper" GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE, "Belles Demoiselles Plantation" CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON, "Rodman the Keeper" SARAH ORNE JEWETT, "A White Heron" MARY WILKINS FREEMAN, "A Church Mouse" ROSE TERRY COOKE, "How Celia Changed Her Mind" GRACE ELIZABETH KING, "La Grande Demoiselle" KATE CHOPIN," Athénaïse" ALICE DUNBAR-NELSON, "The Goodness of Saint Rocque" Part II: Realism JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, "Free Joe and the Rest of the World" SARAH ORNE JEWETT, "Miss Tempy's Watchers" CHARLES W. CHESNUTT, "The Sheriff's Children" HAMLIN GARLAND, "The Return of a Private" AMBROSE BIERCE, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" MARY WILKINS FREEMAN, "The Revolt of 'Mother'" HAROLD FREDERIC, "My Aunt Susan" HENRY JAMES, "The Real Thing" CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, "The Yellow Wallpaper" KATE CHOPIN, "Désirée's Baby" MADELENE YALE WYNNE, "The Little Room" HENRY JAMES, "The Beast in the Jungle" STEPHEN CRANE, "The Blue Hotel" STEPHEN CRANE, "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" ABRAHAM CAHAN, "A Providential Match" ALICE DUNBAR-NELSON, "Sister Josepha" CHARLES W. CHESTNUTT, "The Wife of His Youth" ZITKALA-SÄ, "The Trial Path" EDITH WHARTON, "The Other Two" WILLA CATHER, "A Wagner Matinée" WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, "Editha" MARY AUSTIN, "The Walking Woman" ZONA GALE, "Nobody Rich, Nobody Poor" SUI SIN FAR, "Mrs. Spring Fragrance" Part III: Naturalism STEPHEN CRANE, "The Men in the Storm" STEP...
