Twisted from the ordinary : essays on American literary naturalism. [1-57233-223-9] 

 

 

Tennessee Studies in Literature vol 40

http://worldcat.org/oclc/50960823

The Silent Partnership: Naturalism and Sentimentalism in the Novels of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps / Sara Britton Goodling 1
Performative Passages: Davis's Life in the Iron Mills, Crane's Maggie, and Norris's McTeague / William Dow 23
Stephen Crane and the Transformation of the Bowery / Robert M. Dowling 45
Is There a Doctor in the House? Norris's Naturalist Gaze of Clinical Observation in McTeague / Daniel Schierenbeck 63
McTeague: Naturalism, Legal Stealing, and the Anti-Gift / Hildegard Hoeller 86
"The Signs and Symbols of the West": Frank Norris, The Octopus, and the Naturalization of Market Capitalism / Adam H. Wood 107
No Green Card Needed: Dreiserian Naturalism and Proletarian Female Whiteness / Laura Hapke 128
Coon Shows, Ragtime, and the Blues: Race, Urban Culture, and the Naturalist Vision in Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Sport of the Gods / Nancy Von Rosk 144
"Working" Towards a Sense of Agency: Determinism in The Wings of the Dove / Brannon W. Costello 169
Assaulting the Yeehats: Violence and Space in The Call of the Wild / James R. Giles 188
"Violent Movements of Business": The Moral Nihilist as Economic Man in Jack London's The Sea-Wolf / David K. Heckerl 202
Highbrow/Lowbrow: Naturalist Writers and the "Reading Habit" / Barbara Hochman 217
The "Bitter Taste" of Naturalism: Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and David Graham Phillips's Susan Lenox / Donna M. Campbell 237
"Hunting for the Real": Responses to Art in Edith Wharton's Custom of the Country / Lilian R. Furst 260
Turning Zola Inside Out: Jane Addams and Literary Naturalism / Katherine Joslin 276
Oppressive Bodies: Victorianism, Feminism, and Naturalism in Evelyn Scott's The Narrow House / Tim Edwards 289
Fear, Consumption, and Desire: Naturalism and Ann Petry's The Street / Kecia Driver McBride 304
Naturalism's Middle Ages: The Evolution of the American True-Crime Novel, 1930-1960 / Lana A. Whited 323
From Determinism to Indeterminacy: Chaos Theory, Systems Theory, and the Discourse of Naturalism / Mohamed Zayani 344
Whither Naturalism? / Philip Gerber 367
Is American Literary Naturalism Dead? A Futher Inquiry / Donald Pizer

American realism : new essays / edited by Eric J. Sundquist. [0801827965] Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1982.
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Arac, Jonathan, 1945- . Emergence of American literary narrative, 1820-1860 / Jonathan Arac. [0674018699 (alk. paper) ] Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
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Kaplan, Harold, 1916-. Power and order : Henry Adams and the naturalist tradition in American fiction / Harold Kaplan. [0226424243 :] Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1981.
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Fisher, Philip, 1941-. Hard facts : setting and form in the American novel / Philip Fisher. [0195035283 :] New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.
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"The Naturalist Novel and the City: Temporary Worlds"

Companion to American fiction, 1865-1914 / edited by Robert Paul Lamb and G.R. Thompson. [1405100648 (hard cover : alk. paper) ] Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
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Howard, June.. Form and history in American literary naturalism / June Howard. [0807816507] Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1985.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PS374.N29 H68 1985

"'True Art Speaks Plainly': Theodore Dreiser and the Late Nineteenth-Century American Debate over Realism and Naturalism" Nineteenth century prose [1052-0406] 23.2 (1996). pp.76-89

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Zayani, Mohamed, 1965- .Reading the symptom : Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and the dynamics of capitalism / Mohamed Zayani ; preface by Jean-Joseph Goux. [082043910X (alk. paper) ] New York : Peter Lang, c1999.

As Jean-Joseph Goux explains in his preface, Zayani “argues that capitalism provides the socio-symbolic or the structuring whole within which naturalism is produced and from which it cannot be dissociated” (xii). Chapter 1, “American Literary Naturalism and the Limits of Revisionism,” serves as a very able introduction to what follows, as Zayani analyzes previous scholarship, especially June Howard’s Form and History in American Literary Naturalism and Walter Benn Michaels’s The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism, and explains his own choice of texts by Norris and Dreiser, “two authors [who] provide a resonant portrayal of some of the most insistent economic forces and unescapable trends that have shaped the period” (16).

Analyzing Norris’s Vandover and the Brute, chapter 2 discusses capitalism as “a system that is inherently ludic” (39). Chapter 3, “The Strategy of Desire in McTeague,” explains that “economy and desire are mutually reinforcing” (58). Zayani rejects the stereotype of the naturalistic novelist as crude and prolix, a writer who prevails through the sheer weight of words and the accumulation of detail; he explains that “there is more in Norris’s language than meets the eye” (95). Chapter 4, “A Rhythmanalytical Approach to the Problematic of Everydayness in Sister Carrie,” shows how, in America’s highly commercial society, Carrie Meeber’s most salable commodity is herself. Chapter 5, “Reading the Symptom: History without Teleology,” concludes the volume by explaining, among other things, why “capitalism cannot be reduced to a purely economic category” (140).

Mitchell, Lee Clark, 1947-. Determined fictions : American literary naturalism / Lee Clark Mitchell. [0231068980] New York : Columbia University Press, c1989.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PS374.N29 M58 1989

 

Mitchell argues for a more sophisticated view of both the deterministic philosophy and the stylistic devices of literary naturalism. He studies the way naturalism challenges the moral assumptions of realism, locating the academic resistance to writers like Crane, Dreiser, Norris, and London in their attack on traditional notions of moral agency. In separate chapters, Mitchell discusses "To Build a Fire," An American Tragedy, Vandover and the Brute, and The Red Badge of Courage, and contends that such works have in common an assault on the reader's notion of an autonomous self. He analyzes the way this attack is waged through the formal aspects of naturalistic writing, which uses techniques like repetition and paratactic syntax to convey a sense of unalterable necessity in fiction. His argument that "philosophy and style are one" focuses attention on rhetorical properties of authors whose writing and view of the world are seldom the object of praise.