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"A highly original and gripping account of the works of Eakins and Crane. That remarkable combination of close reading and close viewing which Fried uniquely co

The scholarship devoted to American literary realism has long wrestled with problems of definition: is realism a genre, with a particular form, content, and tec

An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, Reading the American Novel 1865-1914 provides a comprehensive introduction to the Americ

Multi-volume history of American literature.

"'This book,' Michael Fried's work opens, 'was written not so much chapter by chapter as painting by painting over a span of roughly ten years.' Courbet's Reali