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Tables of Contents for The Portable American Realism Reader
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
The Historical Context
vii
 
Tom Quirk
The Literary Context
xx
 
James Nagel
Suggestions for Further Reading
xxxiii
 
Chronology
xxxvii
 
PART I Regionalism and Local Color
``Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog''
3
5
Mark Twain
``The Luck of Roaring Camp''
8
9
Bret Harte
``The Story of the Old Ram''
17
5
Mark Twain
``The Minister's Housekeeper''
22
10
Harriet Beecher Stowe
``Belles Demoiselles Plantation''
32
15
George Washington Cable
``Rodman the Keeper''
47
24
Constance Fenimore Woolson
``A White Heron''
71
9
Sarah Orne Jewett
``A Church Mouse''
80
13
Mary Wilkins Freeman
``How Celia Changed Her Mind''
93
17
Rose Terry Cooke
``La Grande Demoiselle''
110
6
Grace Elizabeth King
``Athenaise''
116
27
Kate Chopin
``The Goodness of Saint Rocque''
143
8
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
PART II Realism
``Free Joe and the Rest of the World''
151
10
Joel Chandler Harris
``Miss Tempy's Watchers''
161
9
Sarah Orne Jewett
``The Sheriff's Children''
170
15
Charles W. Chesnutt
``The Return of a Private''
185
15
Hamlin Garland
``An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge''
200
8
Ambrose Bierce
``The Revolt of `Mother'''
208
14
Mary Wilkins Freeman
``My Aunt Susan''
222
11
Harold Frederic
``The Real Thing''
233
21
Henry James
``The Yellow Wallpaper''
254
15
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
``Desiree's Baby''
269
5
Kate Chopin
``The Little Room''
274
11
Madelene Yale Wynne
``The Beast in the Jungle''
285
37
Henry James
``The Blue Hotel''
322
24
Stephen Crane
``The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky''
346
10
Stephen Crane
``A Providential Match''
356
18
Abraham Cahan
``Sister Josepha''
374
6
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
``The Wife of His Youth''
380
11
Charles W. Chesnutt
``The Trial Path''
391
4
Zitkala-Sa
``The Other Two''
395
10
Edith Wharton
``A Wagner Matinee''
405
7
Willa Cather
``Editha''
412
12
William Dean Howells
``The Walking Woman''
424
7
Mary Austin
``Nobody Rich, Nobody Poor''
431
7
Zona Gale
```Mrs. Spring Fragrance''
438
13
Sui Sin Far
PART III Naturalism
``The Men in the Storm''
451
6
Stephen Crane
``An Experiment in Misery''
457
9
Stephen Crane
``The Open Boat''
466
21
Stephen Crane
``Under the Lion's Paw''
487
12
Hamlin Garland
``Curious Shifts of the Poor''
499
9
Theodore Dreiser
``The Law of Life''
508
6
Jack London
``A Deal in Wheat''
514
10
Frank Norris
``The Lynching of Jube Benson''
524
7
Paul Laurence Dunbar
``The Problem of Old Harjo''
531
6
John M. Oskison
``To Build a Fire''
537
14
Jack London
``The Second Choice''
551
18
Theodore Dreiser
Biographical Notes
569
20
Notes on the Texts
589