Re-Visioning American Literary Naturalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8894975 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marc Egnal (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 171-190 |
| Publication date | 2018-02-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras.2017.026 |
| OpenAlex | W2787050053 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 19 |
Today, two characteristics define literary naturalism, and both are problematic. One is the emphasis on four male writers: Theodore Dreiser, Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, and Jack London. This focus emerged in the 1930s and stemmed from biases against white women and African Americans. The other defining trait is the temporal reach of naturalism. Extrapolating from traits in the works of Dreiser et al., this school now includes the “proletarian writers” of the 1930s and many recent authors. This article presents a new definition, one that emphasizes the distinct nature of the period from 1893 to 1913, when authors and social scientists believed that immutable “laws” of heredity and environment determined human behaviour. This approach broadens the naturalist canon during the classic era, 1893–1913, dethroning those four white males, and excludes most later works
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Literature · Naturalism · Period (music · Political science · Proletariat · White (mutation · American and British Literature Analysis · American Literature and Culture · History · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society
The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism
The Cambridge History of the American Novel
Social science history
Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Evolution of the Novel in the United States
The Problem of American Realism
The Origin of the Terms Naturalisme, Naturaliste
On Native Grounds
The Age of Anxiety
Romantic Individualism in Garland, Norris and Crane
The Octopus
Terrible Honesty
The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |