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The Theory and Practice of American Literary Naturalism : Selected Essays and Reviews
author
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Pizer, Donald.
publisher
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Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0809318474
print isbn13
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9780809318476
ebook isbn13
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9780585186382
language
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English
subject
American fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc, American fiction--History and criticism, Naturalism in literature.
publication date
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1993
lcc
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PS374.N29P48 1993eb
ddc
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813.009/12
subject
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American fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc, American fiction--History and criticism, Naturalism in literature.
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The Theory and Practice of American Literary Naturalism
Selected Essays and Reviews
Donald Pizer
Southern Illinois University Press Carbondale and Edwardsville
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Copyright 1993 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Designed by Jason Schellenberg Production supervised by Natalia Nadraga 96 95 94 93 4 3 2 1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pizer, Donald. The theory and practice of American literary naturalism: selected essays and reviews / Donald Pizer p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. American fictionHistory and criticismTheory, etc. 2. American fictionHistory and criticism. 3. Natural ism in literature. I. Title. PS374.N29P48 1993 813.009'12dc20 92-23398 ISBN 0-8093-1847-4 (cloth) CIP
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
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CONTENTS
Preface
vii
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction: The Study of American Literary Naturalism: A Retrospective Overview
1
General Essays
1. The Three Phases of American Literary Naturalism
13
2. American Literary Naturalism and the Humanistic Tradition
36
3. American Literary Naturalism: The Example of Dreiser
54
4. Dreiser and the Naturalistic Drama of Consciousness
69
The Late Nineteenth Century
5. Nineteenth-Century American Naturalism: An Essay in Definition
85
6. Nineteenth-Century American Naturalism: An Approach Through Form
102
7. The Problem of Philosophy in the Naturalistic Novel
110
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8. Frank Norris's Definition of Naturalism
120
9. Stephen Crane's Maggie and American Naturalism
124
10. Self-Censorship and the Editing of Late Nineteenth-Century Naturalistic Texts
133
The Twentieth Century
11. American Naturalism in Its "Perfected" State: The Age of Innocence and An American Tragedy
153
12. Contemporary American Literary Naturalism
167
13. William Kennedy's Ironweed and the American Naturalistic Tradition
187
Reviews
14. Harold Kaplan, Power and Order: Henry Adams and the Naturalist Tradition in American Fiction
197
15. John J. Conder, Naturalism in American Fiction: The Classic Phase
200
16. Walter Benn Michaels, The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century
203
17. Lee Clark Mitchell, Determined Fictions: American Literary Naturalism
207
Notes
213
A Selected Bibliography of American Literary Naturalism
226
Index
231
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PREFACE
As I note in the introduction, my first published essay on a work of American literary naturalism appeared in 1955. I have published regularly on this subject since then. The essays collected in this volume represent one portion of this body of criticism, that in which specific naturalistic novels are discussed in relation to general ideas about the nature of American naturalism as a whole. These essays fall into three groupings, which thereby constitute the organization of the volume. Some deal with the full range of American naturalism, from the 1890s to the late twentieth century, and some are confined either to the 1890s or to the twentieth century. In addition, further insight into my views on American naturalism is provided by an introduction in which I offer a brief historical overview of my interest in the subject and by a number of reviews of recent studies of literary naturalism in America. The volume concludes with a bibliography of general studies of American naturalism.
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