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• Neorealism (Literature)
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• Realism's Empire: Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Geoffrey Baker (PDF at Ohio State)
• For Love or For Money: Balzac's Rhetorical Realism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Armine Kotin Mortimer (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dickens's Hyperrealism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by John Robert Reed (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Limits of Realism: Chinese Fiction in the Revolutionary Period (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Marston Anderson (HTML at UC Press)
• The Novel-Machine: The Theory and Fiction of Anthony Trollope (originally published 1980; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Walter M. Kendrick (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• A Superficial Reading of Henry James: Preoccupations with the Material World (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Thomas J. Otten (PDF at Ohio State)
• On Howells: The Best From American Literature (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), ed. by Edwin Harrison Cady and Louis J. Budd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Primitive Minds: Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Anna Neill (PDF at Ohio State)
• Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siècle: The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman's Press on the Development of the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Molly Youngkin (PDF at Ohio State)
• After the Vows Were Spoken: Marriage in American Literary Realism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Allen F. Stein (PDF at Ohio State)
• Literature and Reality (New York: International Publishers, c1950), by Howard Fast (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Glance Beyond Doubt: Narration, Representation, Subjectivity (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1996), by Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan (PDF at Ohio State)
• Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect (originally published 1998; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Hayden V. White (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Beasts of the Modern Imagination: Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, and Lawrence (originally published 1985; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Margot Norris (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Scenes of Sympathy: Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2000), by Audrey Jaffe (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Challenge of Bewilderment: Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford, by Paul B. Armstrong
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open
  • HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE

• Philosophy of Science and Education: Chinese and European Views (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1995), ed. by Shen Qingsong, Tran Van Doan, and Fritz Wallner (multiple formats at Google)
• Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2013), by Timothy Morton (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• A Defence of Idealism: Some Questions and Conclusions (London: Macmillan and Co., 1917), by May Sinclair (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Essays in Experimental Logic (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1916), by John Dewey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text

• Speculations (2010-) (full serial archives)

• Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity: The Limits of Political Realism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), by Gregory Crane (HTML at UC Press)

• The Thirteen Pragmatisms and Other Essays (originally published 1963; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Pragmatism and the Crisis of Democracy (Public policy pamphlet #12; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1934), by Charles W. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Metaphysics of Pragmatism (Chicago and London: Open Court Pub. Co., 1927), by Sidney Hook, contrib. by John Dewey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pragmatism and Theory in English Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #39; London: Stevens and Sons, 1987), by P. S. Atiyah (PDF in the UK)
• Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical Essays (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co.; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1923), by Charles S. Peirce, ed. by Morris R. Cohen, contrib. by John Dewey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Pragmatism, by D. L. Murray, contrib. by F. C. S. Schiller (Gutenberg text)
• Pragmatism: A New Name For Some Old Ways of Thinking, by William James (Gutenberg text)
• Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1917), by John Dewey, Addison Webster Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George Herbert Mead, Boyd Henry Bode, Henry Waldgrave Stuart, James Hayden Tufts, and Horace Meyer Kallen (Gutenberg text)
• Die Philosophie des Als Ob: System der Theoretischen, Praktischen und Religiösen Fiktionen der Menschheit auf Grund eines Idealistischen Positivismus, Mit Einem Anhang Über Kant und Nietzsche (7th and 8th edition, in German; Leipzig: F. Meiner, 1922), by Hans Vaihinger (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dogmatism and Evolution: Studies in Modern Philosophy (New York: Macmillan, 1910), by Theodore De Laguna and Grace Andrus De Laguna (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Essays in Radical Empiricism, by William James (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Meaning of Truth, by William James (Gutenberg text)
• The Philosophy of William James, Drawn From His Own Works (New York: Modern Library, c1925), by William James, ed. by Horace Meyer Kallen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Vital Lies: Studies of Some Varieties of Recent Obscurantism (2 volumes; London: J. Lane; et al., 1912), by Vernon Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Last Stand of Dialectic Materialism: A Study of Sidney Hook's Marxism (New York: Polemic Publishers, 1934), by Max Eastman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Art in History, History in Art: Studies in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Culture (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1991), ed. by David Freedberg and Jan De Vries (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• American Impressionist and Realist Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz, Exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19 April Through 3 June 1973 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1973), by Dianne H. Pilgrim, contrib. by John K. Howat (multiple formats with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Chinese Film: Realism and Convention From the Silent Era to the Digital Age (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2022), by Jason McGrath (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Cinema is the Strongest Weapon: Race-Making and Resistance in Fascist Italy (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2023), by Lorenzo Fabbri (PDF with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Literature Matters (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by J. Hillis Miller, ed. by Monika Reif-Hülser (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
• Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Essays in the History of Ideas (originally published 1948; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Humanistic Studies (partial serial archives)
• Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Frederick William Robertson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Relation of Literature to Life, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Saturday Papers: Essays on Literature From the Literary Review (first (and only known) volume of selections from The Literary Review of the New York Post; New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benét, and Amy Loveman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

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