McCullar, Mary Ray2018-07-112018-07-116/30/1933http://hdl.handle.net/11274/10054To American prose fiction the critical controversy over realism meant the substitution·of a dark-skirted symbol of truth for the white-winged dreams of romanticism.en-USRealism in fictionRomanticismCritical literary analysisThe critical reception of the realistic novel in AmericaMaster's Dissertation