In the current literary language, which is full of modernist, post-modernist, and post-postmodernist cliches, realism and all those associated with it are no longer considered relevant. William Dean Howells (1837-1920), a pioneer in American realism for almost three decades, is virtually obliterated from the present literary scene of America. The prime factor, of his disappearance is that the literary trend of realism which he initiated is out of fashion now. ...
