American Literary Realism
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For over fifty years, American Literary Realism has brought readers critical essays on American literature from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The whole panorama of great authors from this key transition period in American literary history, including Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, and many others, is discussed in articles, book reviews, critical essays, bibliographies, documents, and notes on all related topics. Each issue is also a valuable bibliographic resource. Recent issues have included essays on Jack London and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Indexes
The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL), America: History and Life, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Book Review Digest Plus (H.W. Wilson), Brepols, Current Abstracts, Dietrich's Index Philosophicus, EBSCO, Gale Academic OneFile, Gale Literature: Book Review Index, Gale OneFile: High School Edition, Humanities Abstracts (H.W. Wilson), Humanities Index (Online), Humanities International Complete, Humanities International Index, Humanities Source, Humanities Source Ultimate, IBZ - Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur, InfoTrac Custom, Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes - und Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur, MLA International Bibliography, OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson), OmniFile Full Text Select (H.W. Wilson), Periodicals Index Online, Personal Alert (E-mail), Poetry & Short Story Reference Center, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies, Scopus, TOC Premier, Web of Science
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Editors
Editor
Gary Scharnhorst
Department of English
Humanities 217
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1106
(505) 277-3015
Fax: (505) 277-5573
gscharn@unm.edu
Editor
Henry B. Wonham
Editorial Board
- Donna M. Campbell, Washington State University
- Jeanne Campbell Reesman, University of Texas at San Antonio
- Hsuan Hsu, Concordia University, Montreal
- Alan Gribben, Auburn University, Montgomery
- Denise D. Knight, SUNY-Cortland
- Tara Penry, Boise State University
- Thomas Quirk, University of Missouri, Columbia
- Kenneth M. Roemer, University of Texas, Arlington
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American Literary Realism publishes critical essays, bibliographies, documents, notes, and reviews concerning the period of American Realism. Two copies of the manuscript should be submitted with a self-addressed stamped envelope to the editors,
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University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, NM 87131.
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Featured Articles
Lessons from the “City of Print”
Ayendy Bonifacio, Kelley Kreitz, Mark Noonan
https://doi.org/10.5406/amerlitereal.53.2.0117
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/774687
Teaching Realism of Jim Crow America
Sherita L. Johnson
https://doi.org/10.5406/amerlitereal.53.3.0204
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/786889
Keeping Queer Company in the Short Fiction of Alice French
Meg Gillette
https://doi.org/10.5406/amerlitereal.53.2.0138
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/774689
The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism ed. by Keith Newlin (review)
Harold H. Kolb
https://doi.org/10.5406/amerlitereal.53.2.0183
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/774694
Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture by Julie Olin-Ammentorp (review)
Charles Johanningsmeier
https://doi.org/10.5406/amerlitereal.53.2.0177
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/774693
Mark Twain's Lost “Burlesque Hamlet”
Gary Scharnhorst
https://doi.org/10.5406/amerlitereal.53.3.0272
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/amerlitereal.53.3.0272?refreqid=excelsior%3Ac7c53dfd40ad56c5991f7e33b8f5c8e3
Realism and Reconstruction: A Comparative Perspective
Cody Marrs
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/886200
Sutton E. Griggs and Thomas R. Dixon: A Reconstruction Call and Response
Tim Bruno
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/886201
Prophesying Citizenship in Edward A. Johnson's Light Ahead for the Negro
Annemarie Mott Ewing
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/886202
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt and the Double Time of Motherhood
Stephanie Burt
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/886203
"The Black Princess" and Black Editors: The (Re)Making of Piatt's "Most Anthologized Poem"
Karin L. Hooks
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/886204
Rebecca Harding Davis' Feminist Focus: Irony as the Best Available Means
Nanette Hilton
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/905083
Newland Archer's Crisis of (Im)mobility: Gendered Routes of Travel in The Age of Innocence
Gary Totten
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/905084
War Scenes in One of Ours and The Red Badge of Courage
Kim Vanderlaan
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/905085
Performing Slavery and Freedom, 1875–1897: The Return of Henry Box Brown to North America
Martha J. Cutter
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/905086
Isa Glenn's Heat Imperialist Meltdowns through a Cool Jamesian Lens
Veronica Makowsky
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/905087
Corresponding Stories: Dreiser’s Red Typewriter in Russia, Ruth Epperson Kennell
Julia Mickenberg
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/916478
Volumes: Charles Chesnutt and the Racial History of the Stenographic Imagination
Susanna Ashton
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/916479
O. Henry’s Cosmopolitanism; or, the American Collideoscope
Marshall Brown
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/916480
Edith Wharton’s “The Last Asset” and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
John A. Weymark
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/916481
The Custom of the Country: The Melodrama of Remarriage
Rex Butler
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/916482
