The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism
Subtitle: From Howells to London (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 30, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780521438766
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Handbooks, manuals, etc; American English; English; Literary Criticism; USA; Naturalism in literature; American - General; American fiction--19th century--History and c; American fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; American fiction; 19th century; History and criticism
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.