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Fighting words : polemics and social change in literary naturalism / Ira Wells.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wells, Ira, 1981-
- Series:
- Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism
- Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Naturalism in literature.
- Social problems in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (206 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Fighting Words offers an entirely new understanding of what literary naturalism is and why it matters. Ira Wells, countering the standard narrative of literary naturalism's much-touted concern with environmental and philosophical determinism, draws attention to the polemical essence of the genre and demonstrates how literary naturalists engaged instead with explosive political and cultural issues that remain fervently debated today. Naturalist writers, Wells argues in Fighting Words, are united less by a coherent philosophy than by an attitude, a postur
- Contents:
- Naturalism: a polemical introduction
- An education
- The polemical nature of naturalism in America
- Against the grain: ecology, environmentalism, and Frank Norris's The octopus
- Crimes of art and nature: an American tragedy and the problem of abortion
- "What I killed for, I am": domestic terror in Richard Wright's America
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8677-7
- OCLC:
- 867739417
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