The scholarship devoted to American literary realism has long
wrestled with problems of definition: is realism a genre, with a
particular form, content, and technique? Is it a style, with a
distinctive artistic arrangement of words, characters, and
description? Or is it a period, usually placed as occurring after
the Civil War and concluding somewhere around the onset of World
War I? This volume aims to widen the scope of study beyond mere
definition, however, by expanding the boundaries of the subject
through essays that reconsider and enlarge upon such questions. The
Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism aims to take stock of
the scholarly work in the area and map out paths for future
directions of study. The Handbook offers 35 vibrant and original
essays of new interpretations of the artistic and political
challenges of representing life. It is the first book to treat the
subject topically and thematically, in wide scope, with essays that
draw upon recent scholarship in literary and cultural studies to
offer an authoritative and in-depth reassessment of major and minor
figures and the contexts that shaped their work. Contributors here
tease out the workings of a particular concept through a variety of
authors and their cultural contexts. A set of essays explores
realism's genesis and its connection to previous and subsequent
movements. Others examine the inclusiveness of representation, the
circulation of texts, and the aesthetic representation of science,
time, space, and the subjects of medicine, the New Woman, and the
middle class. Still others trace the connection to other
arts-poetry, drama, illustration, photography, painting, and
film-and to pedagogic issues in the teaching of realism. As a
whole, this volume forges exciting new paths in the study of
realism and writers' unending labor to represent life accurately.
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