This large, interesting, and useful collection of thirty-five essays by American, British, and Chinese scholars... can be seen as a small library which enriches our understnding on American literary realism in the later-nineteen-hundreds and expands to discussions of human thought ad art in American and world literature and culture across almost two centries.
Keith Newlin is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he teaches courses in American literary realism and naturalism, modernism, and drama. The editor of Studies in American Naturalism, he is also the author of Hamlin Garland, A Life and editor of The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism, among other books.