This book argues that the history of literary modernism is inextricably connected with naturalism. Simon Joyce traces a complex response among aesthetes to the work of Émile Zola at the turn of the ...
The essays as a whole seek to demonstrate both the coherence of Norris's thought and his contribution toward the establishment of a specific form of naturalism in America. The collection's principal ...
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Naturally, naturalism allows for substantial differences in style and setting ... introduction to the Granta Book of the American Short Story to tick off Stephen Spender for suggesting that the lure ...