Literary realism reconsidered: "the world in its length and breadth" / George Levine
Realist synthesis in the nineteenth-century novel: "that unity which lies in the selection of our keenest consciousness" / Simon Dentith
Space, mobility, and the novel: "the spirit of place is a great reality" / Josephine McDonagh
Naturalism: "dirt and horror pure and simple" / Sally Ledger
Realism before and after photography: "the fantastical form of a relation among things" / Nancy Armstrong
The realist aesthetic in painting: "serious and committed, ironic and brutal, sincere and full of poetry" / Andrew Hemingway
Interrupted dialogues of realism and modernism: "the fact of new forms of life, already born and active" / Esther Leslie
Socialist realism: "to depict reality in its revolutionary development" / Brandon Taylor
Realism, modernism, and photography: "at last, at last the mask has been torn away" / John Roberts
Cinematic realism: "a recreation of the world in its own image" / Laura Marcus
The current of critical irrealism: "A moonlit enchanted night" / Michael Löwy
Psychoanalysis and the Lacanisn real: "strange shapes of the unwarped primal world" / Slavoj Žižek
Feminist theory and the return of the real: "what we really want most out of realism..." / Helen Small
Realism and anti-realism in contemporary philosophy: "what's truth got to do with it?" / Christopher Norris
A note on literary realism in conclusion / Fredric Jameson.
