The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism
Subtitle: From Howells to London (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 28, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780521433006
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Literary Criticism; 19th Century American Novel And Short Story; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; English; USA; American - General; American fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; 19th century; American fiction; Handbooks, manuals, etc; History and criticism; Naturalism in literature
First sentence: Although realism and naturalism could have sprung up independently in the United States, the historical fact is that they flourished earlier in the European countries all the way eastward to Russia and that American writers were especially stimulated by British and French models.