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. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century Naturalism in literature. Social problems in literature.