DALA: Digital American Literature Anthology
Edited by Michael O'Conner, Millikin University

The Rise of Realism Resources

Resources for Lecture Building and Extended Study - Copyrighted Materials

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Author Biographies and Resources

William Dean Howells[Heath]

Henry James [American Passages][New York University Library]

Rebecca Harding Davis [Heath]

Bret Harte [American Passages]

Sarah Orne Jewett [American Passages][Heath]

Kate Chopin [American Passages][Heath]

Charles W. Chesnutt [Heath]

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman [American Passages][Heath]

Booker T. Washington [American Passages]

W.E.B. Du Bois [American Passages]

Edith Wharton [American Passages]

American Passages: Instructor Overview of Regional Realism

American Passages: Instructor Overview of Social Realism

Regionalism and Local Color Fiction by Donna Campbell

Realism in American Fiction by Donna Campbell

Naturalism in American Literature by Donna Campbell

American Realism, A Brief Introduction by Paul Reuben

American Naturalism, A Brief Introduction by Paul Reuben

Parrington's "Victorian Realism," from Main Current in American Thought: The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America, 1860-1920

Multimedia

American Passages: Regional Realism

American Passages: Social Realism

Electronic Resources in the Public Domain in the USA

Project Gutenberg: Life in the Iron-Mills; or, the Korl Woman by Rebecca Harding Davis

 

 

 

 

 

Dr.Michael O'Conner, Millikin University