Contents v
Welcome: Suggestions for Students xix
To the Instructor xxii
Acknowledgments xxv
Epigraphs xxvi
PART I AMERICAN LITERATURE AT THE END OF THE
NINETEENTH CENTURY 1
Letter to the Reader: Literary Realism in America 3
SAMUEL L. CLEMENS (MARK TWAIN) (1835-1910) 22
The Notorious-jumping Frog
of Calaveras County 24
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses 29
BRET HARTE (1856-1902) 41
The Outcasts of Poker Flat 42
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS (1857-1920) 52
Editha 54
SIDNEY LANIER (1842-1881) 67
The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson 68
AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914) 70
Chickamauga 71
HENRY JAMES (1845-1916) 77
The Pupil 79
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS (1848-1908) 118
The Tar-Baby 119
Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox 122
SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909) 125
A White Heron 126
EMMA LAZARUS (1849-1887) 135
The New Colossus 136