Conscience and purpose: fiction and social consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather

W.D. Howells's literary antitheory : toward a social-ethical aesthetic in the Editor's study

What is to be done? : Howells's social-ethical fiction

"Unwritable things" : Sarah Orne Jewett's dual aesthetic in Deephaven and The country of the pointed firs

Charles W. Chesnutt and the limits of literary mediation

Willa Cather and the anti-realist uses of social reference

Implications.