Once we acknowledge that manipulation was essential rather than incidental to the project of nineteenth-century realism, our understanding of the relationship between photography and fiction changes ...

Tom Roberts researches Russian literature, cinema and intellectual history, specializing in the theory and practice of 19th-century literary realism. He is currently completing his first book, which ...

African American and American postmodern literature; 19th century realism and naturalism; The Harlem Renaissance; American literary modernism; Percival Everett; 19th, 20th and 21st century African ...