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Offers a critical study of the context in which authors such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and Jack London created their most significant work. The book counters a century of criticism that has viewed literary naturalism too narrowly, as a subset of realism, bound by the conventions of realistic narration.

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This work makes original and significant contributions to American literary scholarship. . . . Ranging from William Bradford in the 17th century to Theodore Dreiser in the early 20th, the book positions American literary naturalism in the appropriate, large-scale historical context both intellectual and artistic for theorizing about the school's discrete identity." - Joseph R. McElrath, author of Frank Norris Revisited

Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Defining American Literary Naturalism
  • The Naturalist Aesthetic
  • Naturalism and Utopia
  • The Forms of Determinism
  • Reading American Literary Naturalism
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography on American Literary Naturalism
  • Index

    The Vast and Terrible Drama American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century American Literary Realism Naturalism

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        Publisher: University of Alabama Press
        Publication Date: 10/18/2016 12:00:00 AM
        ISBN13: 9780817358853, 978-0817358853
        ISBN10: 0817358854
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        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Offers a critical study of the context in which authors such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and Jack London created their most significant work. The book counters a century of criticism that has viewed literary naturalism too narrowly, as a subset of realism, bound by the conventions of realistic narration.

        Trade Review
        This work makes original and significant contributions to American literary scholarship. . . . Ranging from William Bradford in the 17th century to Theodore Dreiser in the early 20th, the book positions American literary naturalism in the appropriate, large-scale historical context both intellectual and artistic for theorizing about the school's discrete identity." - Joseph R. McElrath, author of Frank Norris Revisited

        Table of Contents
        • Preface
        • Acknowledgments
        • Defining American Literary Naturalism
        • The Naturalist Aesthetic
        • Naturalism and Utopia
        • The Forms of Determinism
        • Reading American Literary Naturalism
        • Afterword
        • Notes
        • Selected Bibliography on American Literary Naturalism
        • Index

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