Revisionist approaches to American realism and naturalism
By: Jutta Ernst, Sabina Matter-Seibel, Klaus H. Schmidt (eds.).
Series: American studies (Munich, Germany) -- volume 284; American studies (Munich, Germany) -- v. 284.
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9783825368586
Subjects: American literature; Naturalism in literature; Realism in literature
Description: "The present volume responds to the paradoxical situation that, in recent decades, U.S. realism and naturalism have been treated as "a stepchild of American literary history" (Fluck), but have also generated an enormous body of innovative scholarship. In keeping with the collection's title, the contributors both react and add to the revisionist endeavor of this new and exciting material. Modes of inquiry include meta-analyses, readings of little-known texts, revaluations of canonical authors, alternative takes on naturalism's relationship to genre, and transdisciplinary perspectives. Subjects covered range from William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Henry James, Jack London, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser to Robert Frost, Richard Wright, and Edward Steichen."--Publisher website
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.