Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Realism, Political Aesthetics, and (New) Materialism (Jens Elze, Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany) Part I. Aesthetics 1. ?Uses of 'Realism'?: A Term in History and the History of a Term (Andreas Mahler, Free University of Berlin, Germany) -- 2. George Eliot's Realisms (Nadine Böhm-Schnitker, Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen- Nuremberg, Germany) -- 3. Medical Realism and the Magic of Reality: Art and Insight in Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders and Émile Zola's Le docteur Pascal (Maren Scheurer, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) -- 4. Conrad on Epidemics: From The Shadow-Line to Covid-19 (and back) (Nidesh Lawtoo, KU Leuven, Belgium) Part II. Challenges 5. ?Should I Call It Horror??: Reflecting Realism by Exploring Contingency in Ror Wolf's Adventure Series Pilzer und Pelzer ( Barbara Bausch, Free University of Berlin, Germany) -- 6. Trawling Truth: B.S. Johnson's Evacuation of Realist Epistemology (Andr ̌Otto, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) -- 7. Cultural Realism: Reconsidering Magical Realism in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine ( Nasrin Babakhani, Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany) -- 8. Narrative as Realistic Thinking (Kai Wiegandt, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany) Part III. Politics -- 9. Realism for Sustainability (Caroline Levine, Cornell University, USA) -- 10. Network Realism/Capitalist Realism ( Dirk Wiemann, University of Potsdam, Germany) -- 11. Postcolonial Realism and Rohinton Mistry's Family Matters ( Eli Park Sorensen, Chinese University of Hong Kong) -- 12. Settler-Colonial Realism: Naturalizing and Denaturalizing the Frontier (Hamish Dalley, Daemen College, USA) -- Index
