American naturalistic and realistic novelists : a biographical dictionary / E.C. Applegate.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Applegate, Edd.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--Bio-bibliography--Dictionaries.

American fiction.

Novelists, American--Biography--Dictionaries.

Novelists, American.

Naturalism in literature--Dictionaries.

Naturalism in literature.

Realism in literature--Dictionaries.

Realism in literature.

American fiction--Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (447 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Realistic writers seek to render accurate representations of the world, and their novels contain authentic details and descriptions of their characters and settings. Like Realistic authors, Naturalistic ones similarly try to portray the world accurately, but they tend to depict the darker side of life. Realism was born in Europe in the nineteenth century and soon became popular in the United States, while Naturalism became prominent at the beginning of the twentieth century. Both traditions have continued in one form or another to the present day, and Realistic and Naturalistic novelists include some of America's most significant authors, such as Sherwood Anderson, Saul Bellow, Ambrose Bierce, Willa Cather, Theodore Dreiser, Ralph Ellison, and Jack London. This reference includes biographical and critical entries for more than 120 American Naturalistic and Realistic novelists. An introductory essay discusses the history of the Realistic and Naturalistic traditions, points to the difficulty of defining them, and surveys the many authors who have been associated with the two movements. The entries that follow are arranged alphabetically to facilitate use. Each includes basic biographical information and a narrative overview of the writer's educational background, professional career, and published works. The writer's works are briefly discussed in relation to the Realistic and Naturalistic traditions. Entries include primary and secondary bibliographies, and the volume closes with a list of works for further reading.

Contents:

Cover

AMERICAN NATURALISTIC AND REALISTIC NOVELISTS

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

REALISM'S ORIGINS

THE RISE OF REALISM IN AMERICA

REALISM AND REGIONALISM

NATURALISM IN AMERICA

DEFINITIONS OF REALISM AND NATURALISM

WHO ARE THE NATURALISTS?

WHO ARE THE REALISTS?

THE SCOPE OF THE DICTIONARY

NOTES

THE NOVELISTS

Henry Brooks Adams

REPRESENTATIVE WORKS

REFERENCES

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

REPRESENTATIVE WORK

Nelson Algren

James Lane Allen

Sherwood Anderson

Harriette Simpson Arnow

William Attaway

Louis Auchincloss

Mary Austin

Edward Bellamy

Saul Bellow

Ambrose Bierce

Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa)

Thomas Boyd

Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

Alice Brown

Frances Hodgson Burnett

George Washington Cable

Abraham Cahan

Erskine Caldwell

Willa Cather

Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Kate Chopin

Winston Churchill

Samuel L. Clemens

Jack Conroy

REPRESENTATIVE WORKS.

REFERENCES

Rose Terry Cooke

James Gould Cozzens

Stephen Crane

F. Marion Crawford

Edward Dahlberg

Rebecca Harding Davis

Richard Harding Davis

John William De Forest

Floyd Dell

Ignatius Donnelly

John Dos Passos

Theodore Dreiser

W.E.B. DuBois

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far)

Edward Eggleston

Ralph Ellison

James T. Farrell

William Faulkner

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Paul Leicester Ford

Harold Frederic

Mary Wilkins Freeman

Alice French (Octave Thanet)

Isaac K. Friedman

Henry B. Fuller

Zona Gale

Hamlin Garland

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Ellen Glasgow

Michael Gold

Caroline Gordon

Robert Grant

Henry Harland (Sidney Luska)

Joel Chandler Harris

Bret Harte

John Hay

Lafcadio Hearn

Larry Heinemann

Ernest Hemingway

Robert Herrick

J. G. Holland

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

E. W. Howe

William Dean Howells

Henry James

Sarah Orne Jewett

James Jones

Henry F. Keenan

William Kennedy

Clarence King

Edward Smith King

Grace King

Caroline Kirkland

Joseph Kirkland

Meyer Levin

Alfred Henry Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

Jack London

Norman Mailer

John P. Marquand

Carson McCullers

Maria Cristina Mena (Maria Cristina Chambers)

Samuel Merwin

S. Weir Mitchell.

REPRESENTATIVE WORKS

Toni Morrison

Willard Motley

Mary N. Murfree

Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson

(Benjamin) Frank(lin) Norris

Joyce Carol Oates

John O'Hara

John Milton Oskison

Thomas Nelson Page

Will Payne

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Ward)

David Graham Phillips

Ernest Poole

William Sydney Porter (O. Henry)

Opie Read

Frederic Remington

Amelie Rives

Hubert Selby, Jr.

Upton Sinclair

Francis Hopkinson Smith

John Steinbeck

Harriet Beecher Stowe

T. S. Stribling

William Styron

Booth Tarkington

Albion W. Tourgee

Susan Warner

Robert Penn Warren

Henry Kitchell Webster

Edith Wharton

Brand Whitlock

REFERENCES.

Constance Fenimore Woolson

Richard Wright

Anzia Yezierska

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-415) and index.

ISBN:

9798400611407

9786610908677

9781280908675

128090867X

9780313016813

031301681X

OCLC:

613374967