Title:
Twisted from the ordinary : essays on American literary naturalism
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Mary E. Papke.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2003.
Physical Description:
xiv, 416 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781572332232
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The silent partnership : Naturalism and sentimentalism in the novels of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps / Sara Britton Goodling -- Performative passages : Davis's "Life in the iron mills", Craine's "Maggie", and Norris's "McTeague" / William Dow -- Stephen Crane and the transformation of the Bowery / Robert M. Dowling -- "Is there a doctor in house?" Norris's naturalist gaze of clinical observation in "McTeague" / Daniel Schierenbeck -- McTeague : Naturalism, legal stealing, and the anti-gift / Hildegard Hoeller -- "The signs and symbols of the West" : Frank Norris, The Octopus, and the naturalization of market capitalism / Adam H. Wood -- No green card needed : Dreiserian naturalism and proletarian female whiteness / Laura Hapke -- 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 -- "Working" towards a sense of agency : Determinism in The wings of the dove / Brannon W. Costello -- Assaulting the Yeehats : Violence and space in The call of the wild / James R. Giles -- "Violent movements of business" : The moral nihlist as economic man in Jack London's The sea-wolf / David K. Heckerl -- Highbrow/Lowbrow : Naturalist writers and the "reading habit" / Barbara Hochman -- The "bitter taste" of naturalism : Edith Wharton's The house of mirth and David Graham Phillips's Susan Lenox / Donna M. Campbell -- "Hunting for the real" : Responses to art in Edith Wharton's Custom of the country / Lilian R. Furst -- Turning Zola inside out : Jane Addams and literary naturalism / Katherine Joslin -- Oppressive bodies : Victorianism, feminism, and naturalism in Evelyn Scott's The narrow house Tim Edwards -- Fear, consumption, and desire : Naturalism and Ann Petry's The street / Kecia Driver McBride -- Naturalism's Midddle Ages : The evolution of the American true-crime novel, 1930-1960 Lana A. Whited -- From determinism to indeterminacy : Chaos theory, systems theory, and the discourse of naturalism / Mohamed Zayani -- Whither naturalism? / Philip Gerber -- Is American literary naturalism dead? A further inquiry / Donald Pizer.