Form And History In American Literary Naturalism eBook

Examining the novels of Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, and other writers, June Howard presents a study of American literary naturalism as a genre. Naturalism, she states, is a way of imagining the world and the relation of the self to the world, a way of making sense - and making narrative - out of the comforts and discomforts of its historical moment.