Documents of modern literary realism

I: The impulse toward realism. On realistis poetry / Vissarion Belinsky

From 'Life and Aesthetics' / N. G. Chernishevsky

"On realism" / Fernand Desnoyers

On realism / Gustave Flaubert

Two views of 'Madame Bovary' / Edmond Duranty and Charles Sainte-Beuve

"The world of Balzac" / Hippolyte Taine

On realism / George Eliot

On true novels / Edmond and Jules de Goncourt

On realism / Olive Schreiner

"Ideas and idealists" / George Bernard Shaw

On truth in fiction / William Dean Howells

On veritism / Hamlin Garland

Contemporary society as novelistic material / Benito Pérez Galdós

"True art speaks plainly" / Theodore Dreiser

II: The battle over naturalism. On the Rougon-Macquart series; "The experimental novel"; "Naturalism in the theatre" / Emile Zola

"Emile Zola and L'Assommoir" / J.-K. Huysmans

"Nana" / Henry James

Levels of realism / Edmond de Goncourt

"The lower elements" / Guy de Maupassant

"For and against Zola" / Heinrich and Julius Hart

On Spanish realism / Emilia Pardo Bazán

What naturalism is not / Leopoldo Alas

"The new naturalism" / W. S. Lilly

"A typical novel" / Hamilton Wright Mabie

On Russian and French realism; "Manifesto of five against 'Le Terre'" / E.-M. de Vogüé

"Pernicious literature" / National Vigilance Association

"The limits of realism in fiction" / Edmund Gosse

Naturalism in the theatre / August Strindberg

Naturalism is not dead / Paul Alexis

"Guy de Maupassant" / Leo Tolstoy

III: Twentieth-century revisions and evaluations. "A natural history of American naturalism" / Malcolm cowley

"The naturalism of Mr. Dreiser" / Stuart P. Sherman

"A literary manifesto : the populist novel" / Léon Lemonnier

On Portuguese neo-realism / Jaime Brasil

On socialist realism / Friedrich Engels

On socialist realism / Maxim Gorky and others

"A defense of realism" / Hector P. Agosti

"Emile Zola" / Henry James

"A defense of naturalism" / Roger Sherman Loomis

On the falsity of realism / Marcel Proust

"Conclusions and applications" / Arthur Mc Dowall

"Notes on the decline of naturalism" / Philip Rahv

"The realistic fallacy" / Erich Heller

A short bibliography of history and criticism.