从某种意义上说，弗雷德里克·詹姆逊著的《现实主义的二律背反(英文版)》是一部特殊形式的19世纪现实主义小说史。詹姆逊从社会和文化历史切入，结合左拉、托尔斯泰、加尔多斯、艾略特等具体作家的作品，将它们置于与现代主义和后现代主义的对照之中，详尽论述了现实主义的形成、发展和特点，以及它与意识形态和社会历史的关系，即便是局部和具体的分析，也总是处于一种大的理论框架之中。

Introduction: Realism and Its Antinomies
PART ONE:THE ANTINOMIES OF REALISM
I The Twin Sources of Realism: The Narrative Impulse
II TheTwin Sources of Realism: Affect, or, the Body's Present
III Zola, or, the Codification of Affect
IV Tolstoy, or, Distraction
V Perez Gald6s, or, theWaning of Protagonicity
VI George Eliot and Mauvaise Foi
VII Realism and the Dissolution of Genre
VIII The Swollen Third Person, or, Realism after Realism
IX Coda: Kluge, or, Realism after Affect
PART TWO:THE LOGIC OF THE MATERIAL
I The Experiments of Time: Providence and Realism
II War and Representation
III The Historical Novel Today, or, Is It Still Possible?
Index