Donald Pease, "Fear, Rage, and the Mistrials of Representation in The Red Badge of Courage"

A concise definition of naturalism appears in the introduction In that piece,"The Country of the Blue," Eric Sundquist writes,

"Revelling in the extraordinary, the excessive, and the grotesque in order to reveal the immutable bestiality of Man in Nature, naturalism dramatizes the loss of individuality at a physiological level by making a Calvinism without God its determining order and violent death its utopia" (p. 13).

William Cain "Presence and Power in Mcteague"