(His) actual achievement is to highlight a neglected vein of nineteenth-century literature and visual ... such as Ruth Bernard Yeazell's Art of the Everyday (2008) as they enter our critical terrain." ...

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 ...

Couldn't we give "magic realism" a rest? It obfuscates García Márquez's European and medieval inspirations and hidden links to works as diverse as 19th century phantasmal writing, Proust ...

Tom Roberts researches Russian literature, cinema and intellectual history, specializing in the theory and practice of 19th-century literary realism. He is currently ... and avant-garde cinema, art, ...