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The Oxford Handbook of American Literary
Naturalism
Edited
and Introduction by Keith Newlin
Oxford University Press, 2011.
ISBN13:
9780195368932
ISBN10: 0195368932
ABOUT
THE BOOK
The Oxford Handbook of American
Literary Naturalism offers twenty-eight original essays about
an important genre that typically depicts human beings as the product of
biological and environmental forces over which they have little control.
Drawing upon recent scholarship as well as innovations in cultural
studies, contributors offer an authoritative and in-depth reassessment
of a genre that included writers from Stephen Crane, Frank Norris,
Theodore Dreiser, and Jack London to Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Upton
Sinclair, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, Joyce Carol
Oates, Cormac McCarthy, and Don DeLillo. Organized by topic and theme,
essays explore the contexts that prompted the origins of the genre, the
problem of definition and the interconnections with other genres, and
the scientific and philosophical background. Others examine the tensions
with the genre-the role of women and African-American writers,
depictions of sexuality, the problem of race, the critique of commodity
culture and class, and the continuing presence of naturalism in
twentieth- and twenty-first century fiction. Contributors also consider
the role of the marketplace in the development of naturalism as well as
the popular and critical response and the influence of naturalism in the
other arts.
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