Patrick Murtha
Reader
First off: I can’t draw a firm line between realism and naturalism. Books called “naturalist” are either a little more raw, or intended to subscribe to a “scientific” basis.
Anyway, I made a reading list for myself of writers associated with realism and naturalism in the United States between roughly 1850 and 1920, leaving out most of the “big” names after that latter date, but including a few lesser-knowns of the 20s and 30s. In some cases I appended a title or two, but that was strictly for my own guidance as to what to look at next. Since the list might prove useful to someone, I share it here, with the proviso that like anything, it is a work-in-progress, and I have missed people. Suggested additions welcome.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Stillwater Tragedy
Sherwood Anderson
H.H. Boyesen
Ambrose Bierce
Louis Bromfield
Mary Catherwood
Charles Chesnutt
Kate Chopin
Stephen Crane
John William De Forest
Margaret Deland
Floyd Dell
Theodore Dreiser
Edward Eggleston
Fanny Fern, Ruth Hall
Chester Bailey Fernald, John Kendry’s Idea
Waldo Frank
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware
Henry Blake Fuller, The Cliff-Dwellers
Hamlin Garland, Main-Traveled Roads
Robert Grant
Mary Hallock Foote
Albert Halper
Rebecca Harding Davis
Frances Harper, Iola Leroy
Frank Harris, The Bomb
Bret Harte
John Hay, The Bread-Winners
Ben Hecht, Erik Dorn
Robert Herrick
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Elsie Venner
Edgar Watson Howe, The Story of a Country Town
William Dean Howells
Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs
Joseph Kirkland, Zury / The McVeys
Ludwig Lewisohn
Edgar Lee Masters
Brander Matthews, A Confident To-Morrow
S. Weir Mitchell, In War Time
Charles G. Norris
Frank Norris
David Graham Phillips
Ernest Poole
Rowland Robinson
Elizabeth Stoddard, The Morgesons
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oldtown Folks
Booth Tarkington
Mark Twain, The Gilded Age
Charles Dudley Warner
Claude Washburn
Mary S. Watts, Van Cleve
Brand Whitlock
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Harry Leon Wilson, The Spenders
Anyway, I made a reading list for myself of writers associated with realism and naturalism in the United States between roughly 1850 and 1920, leaving out most of the “big” names after that latter date, but including a few lesser-knowns of the 20s and 30s. In some cases I appended a title or two, but that was strictly for my own guidance as to what to look at next. Since the list might prove useful to someone, I share it here, with the proviso that like anything, it is a work-in-progress, and I have missed people. Suggested additions welcome.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Stillwater Tragedy
Sherwood Anderson
H.H. Boyesen
Ambrose Bierce
Louis Bromfield
Mary Catherwood
Charles Chesnutt
Kate Chopin
Stephen Crane
John William De Forest
Margaret Deland
Floyd Dell
Theodore Dreiser
Edward Eggleston
Fanny Fern, Ruth Hall
Chester Bailey Fernald, John Kendry’s Idea
Waldo Frank
Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware
Henry Blake Fuller, The Cliff-Dwellers
Hamlin Garland, Main-Traveled Roads
Robert Grant
Mary Hallock Foote
Albert Halper
Rebecca Harding Davis
Frances Harper, Iola Leroy
Frank Harris, The Bomb
Bret Harte
John Hay, The Bread-Winners
Ben Hecht, Erik Dorn
Robert Herrick
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Elsie Venner
Edgar Watson Howe, The Story of a Country Town
William Dean Howells
Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs
Joseph Kirkland, Zury / The McVeys
Ludwig Lewisohn
Edgar Lee Masters
Brander Matthews, A Confident To-Morrow
S. Weir Mitchell, In War Time
Charles G. Norris
Frank Norris
David Graham Phillips
Ernest Poole
Rowland Robinson
Elizabeth Stoddard, The Morgesons
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oldtown Folks
Booth Tarkington
Mark Twain, The Gilded Age
Charles Dudley Warner
Claude Washburn
Mary S. Watts, Van Cleve
Brand Whitlock
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Harry Leon Wilson, The Spenders