Michael J. Collins (he/him) is Reader in American Studies at King's College London where he is Deputy Head of School, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. Recent essays on Mark Twain, Claude McKay and W.E.B DuBois have appeared in Textual Practice, English Language Notes and The Palgrave Handbook to Twentieth Century Literature and Science (ed. Priscilla Wald), respectively. He is the author of The Drama of the American Short Story, 1800- 1865 (2016) and is co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story with Prof Gavin Jones. He has been the recipient of Arts and Humanities Research Council awards at Masters, Doctoral and Postdoctoral level and a Leverhulme Early Career award.

Collins takes his place alongside Amy Kaplan and Walter Benn Michaels as an essential critic of turn-of-the-century American culture. A crucial contribution to studies of race, class, and temporality, this book recaptures the pluralist potentiality of American realism by offering a new literary history of everyday life. A tremendous achievement.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Modern Times; Or, Re-Reading the Progressive EraCulture and Anarchy: Time, Narrative, and the Haymarket Affair 'Pure Feelings, Noble Aspirations and Generous Ideas': Yellow Journalism, the Cuban War of Independence, and crónica modernista Manacled to Identity: Fugitive Aesthetics in Stephen Crane’s Pluralistic UniverseGetting Some of the Way with Undine Spragg: Cosmopolitanism, Ethnography and War Work in the Novels of Edith Wharton 　Coda: James Huneker, A Decadent Among the Modernists BibliographyIndex