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The 1966 edition of this book has be-come a standard work. In this new, re-vised edition, Pizer has dropped three chapters and has refined and extended the work by adding six: ""American Liter-ary Naturalism: An Approach Through Form,"" ""American Literary Naturalism: The Example of Dreiser,"" ""The Prob-lem of Philosophy in the Naturalistic Novel,"" ""Hamlin Garland's 1891 ""Main-Travelled Roads: ""Local Color as Art,"" ""Jack London: The Problem of Form,"" and ""Dreiser's 'Nigger Jeff' The Devel-opment of an Aesthetic."" The book contains definitions of real-ism and naturalism based on representa-tive novels of the period ranging from Howells' ""Rise of Silas Lapham ""to Crane's ""Red Badge of Courage; ""analyses of the literary criticism of the age, stressing that of Howells, Garland, and Norris; and close readings of specific works by major figures of the period.

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"""Mr. Pizer continually offers us fresh views of American writing toward the end of the last century--views which will help us toward a fuller realization of what both earlier and later American lit-erature really mean.""--Harry T. Moore"

""Mr. Pizer continually offers us fresh views of American writing toward the end of the last century--views which will help us toward a fuller realization of what both earlier and later American lit-erature really mean.""--Harry T. Moore

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