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Explores many of Wharton's major novels - ""The House of Mirth"", ""The Fruit of the Tree"", ""The Custom of the Country"", ""Summer"", ""The Age of Innocence"", and ""Twilight Sleep"" - as well as her short stories, criticism, and essays.

Treats Mark Twain's travel narratives in the context of his contemporary travel writers and a burgeoning tourism culture. This book shows that Twain's 5 major travel narratives - ""The Innocents Abroad"", ""Roughing It"", ""Life on the Mississippi"", ""A Tramp Abroad"", and ""Following the Equator"" - demonstrate his mastery and reinvention of the genre.

Contains essays on the roles played by women in forming American attitudes about benevolence and poverty relief. This book talks about: images of the sentimental seamstress figure in women's fiction; Rebecca Harding Davis's rewriting of the ""industrial"" novel; the philanthropic work and writings of Hull House founder, Jane Addams; and more.

From nature writing to cowboy Westerns, the American West is known mainly through hackneyed representations in popular genres. Broadening our understanding of ""realism,"" this volume demonstrates the linkage of American literary realism to the texts, myths, and resources of the American West.

In a series of influential essays that appeared in Harper's, WD Howells argued for literature as a vehicle for social change. The author explores the legacy of Howells's beliefs as they manifest themselves in Howell's fiction and in the works of three major American writers - Charles W Chesnutt, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Willa Cather.

Presents passages from all five of Mark Twain's travel narratives: ""The Innocents Abroad"", ""Roughing It"", ""A Tramp Abroad"", ""Life on the Mississippi"", and ""Following the Equator"".

Boeckmann links character, literary genre, and science, revealing how major literary works both contributed to and disrupted the construction of race in turn-of-the-century America.

Explores many of Wharton's major novels - ""The House of Mirth"", ""The Fruit of the Tree"", ""The Custom of the Country"", ""Summer"", ""The Age of Innocence"", and ""Twilight Sleep"" - as well as her short stories, criticism, and essays.

By placing Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the company of her contemporaries, this collection seeks to correct misunderstandings of the feminist writer and lecturer as an isolated radical. Gilman believed and preached that no life is ever led in isolation; indeed, the cornerstone of her philosophy was the idea that ""humanity is a relation.

Mark Twain is often pictured as a severe critic of religious piety, shaking his fist at God and mocking the devout. This book highlights Twain's attractions to and engagements with the variety of religious phenomena of America in his lifetime. It offers a more complicated understanding of Twain and his literary output.

A landmark study of the illustrations that originally accompanied now-classic works of American literary realism

Explores the author's concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic agency and expression.