From Kari Holt’s review in American Periodicals:

Reimagining Realism: A New Anthology of Late Nineteenth- & Early Twentieth-Century American Short Fiction ed. by Charles A. Johanningsmeier and Jessica E. McCarthy (review)Reimagining Realism is an exciting new anthology that provides a comprehensive and thought-provoking reassessment of Realism as a literary genre and movement within the context of the United States. Covering works published between 1863 and 1918, this anthology explores literary works across the traditional historical boundaries set for “American Realism,” but it uses these conventional boundar- ies to reimagine the genre through a new set of stories and authors that have not been included as part of the established American Realist “canon.” In doing so, the collection makes it possible to explore Realism in closer connection to American Romanticism and Sentimentalism, while also examining Realist fiction in relation to a wider range of perspectives regarding race, ethnicity, sexuality, and regional contexts, successfully illuminating the “extraordinary vitality, variety, and com- plexity” of this literary movement in ways that will spark important reconceptu- alizations of American Realist fiction (11).