American Literary Realism

Editor: Gary Scharnhorst

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Current Volume: 58 (2025-2026)

Issued three times per year (Fall, Winter, and Spring)

ISSN: 0002-9823

eISSN: 1940-5103

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Note: American Literary Realism will be ceasing publication after Vol. 58, Iss. 3.

For over fifty years, American Literary Realism has brought readers critical essays on American literature from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The whole panorama of great authors from this key transition period in American literary history, including Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, and many others, is discussed in articles, book reviews, critical essays, bibliographies, documents, and notes on all related topics. Each issue is also a valuable bibliographic resource. Recent issues have included essays on Jack London and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Indexes

The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL), America: History and Life, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Book Review Digest Plus (H.W. Wilson), Brepols, Current Abstracts, Dietrich's Index Philosophicus, EBSCO, Gale Academic OneFile, Gale Literature: Book Review Index, Gale OneFile: High School Edition, Humanities Abstracts (H.W. Wilson), Humanities Index (Online), Humanities International Complete, Humanities International Index, Humanities Source, Humanities Source Ultimate, IBZ - Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur, InfoTrac Custom, Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes - und Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur, MLA International Bibliography, OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson), OmniFile Full Text Select (H.W. Wilson), Periodicals Index Online, Personal Alert (E-mail), Poetry & Short Story Reference Center, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies, Scopus, TOC Premier, Web of Science

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Editors

Editor
Gary Scharnhorst
Department of English
Humanities 217
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1106
(505) 277-3015
Fax: (505) 277-5573
gscharn@unm.edu

Editor
Henry B. Wonham

Editorial Board

Donna M. Campbell, Washington State University
Jeanne Campbell Reesman, University of Texas at San Antonio
Hsuan Hsu, Concordia University, Montreal
Alan Gribben, Auburn University, Montgomery
Denise D. Knight, SUNY-Cortland
Tara Penry, Boise State University
Thomas Quirk, University of Missouri, Columbia
Kenneth M. Roemer, University of Texas, Arlington

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American Literary Realism publishes critical essays, bibliographies, documents, notes, and reviews concerning the period of American Realism. Two copies of the manuscript should be submitted with a self-addressed stamped envelope to the editors,

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University of New Mexico,

Albuquerque, NM 87131.

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