Between the Civil War and the First World War, realism was the most prominent form of American fiction. Realist writers of the period include some of America's greatest, such as Henry James, Edith ...

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Chesnutt wrote during what literary critics now call the birth of American realism, alongside authors like William Dean Howells and Mark Twain. He was writing very much in that style, but because ...

The author proposes an alternative strategy called conservative American realism. It is designed to appeal to the center mass of today’s conservatives by triangulating the three factions.