Contents

1. I. Unit 1: Henry James’s Social and Psychological Realism

   1. 1. Introduction to Realism

   2. 2. Art, Class, and Authenticity

   3. 3. From Social Realism to Psychological Realism

   4. 4. Henry James’s In the Cage (1898, Revised 1908)

2. II. Unit 2: The Brute in the American City: Frank Norris and Naturalism

   1. 5. Introduction to Naturalism

   2. 6. Who Put the “Nature” in Naturalism? (Part 1)

   3. 7. Racism and Anti-Semitism in the Gilded Age

3. III. Unit 3: Feminine Malady and Feminist Utopia in Charlotte Perkins Gilman

   1. 8. Feminine Malady in “The Yellow Wall-Paper” (1892)

   2. 9. The Culture of Neurasthenia

   3. 10. Who Put the “Nature” in Naturalism? (Part 2)

   4. 11. Feminist Utopia in Herland (1915)

4. IV. Unit 4: The Lost Generation and the Transformation of the Short Story

   1. 12. Aspects of Modernism

   2. 13. Gertrude Stein’s Serious Play

   3. 14. The Small Town and the Big City

   4. 15. Ernest Hemingway’s Great American Boy-Men

5. V. Unit 5: Nella Larsen: Writing Double Consciousness

   1. 16. Carl Van Vechten’s Heaven

   2. 17. Part One: Encounter

6. VI. Unit 6: Richard Wright: The African American Novel of Protest

   1. 18. The Question of Communism

   2. 19. James Baldwin’s Critique of Wright: The Future of the Social Novel

7. Appendix