Wells, Ira, 1981-

Fighting words polemics and social change in literary naturalism / [electronic resource] : Ira Wells. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2013. - x, 193 p. - Studies in American literary realism and naturalism .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Naturalism: a polemical introduction -- An education -- The polemical nature of naturalism in America -- Against the grain: ecology, environmentalism, and Frank Norris's The octopus -- Crimes of art and nature: an American tragedy and the problem of abortion -- "What I killed for, I am": domestic terror in Richard Wright's America -- Epilogue.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
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American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Naturalism in literature.
Social problems in literature.


Electronic books.

PS374.N29 / W46 2013eb

810.9/12