Revisionist Approaches to American Realism and Naturalism

edited by Jutta Ernst, Sabina Matter-Seibel and Klaus H. Schmidt

Book cover: Revisionist Approaches to American Realism and Naturalism

Extent: 283 pages

Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter

Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies

Series: American Studies - A Monograph Series

Series volume number: 284

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(May 2018)

ISBN: 9783825368586

5.28 x 8.27 inches

Price: $58.00

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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.

  • Edited by Jutta Ernst
  • Edited by Sabina Matter-Seibel
  • Edited by Klaus H Schmidt