2. Naturalism ==a literary movement in the late 19th and early 20th century. European origin: == the works of Honor‚ de Balzac in the 1840s ==a French literary movement associated with Gustave Flaubert, Èmile Zola, and Guy de Maupassant. Chapter 10 American Naturalism ==opens up the...
5. American Naturalism American Naturalism is a literary movement that became popular in America in the late 19th century and is often associated with literary realism. Viewed as a combination of realism and romanticism, critics contend that the American form is heavily influenced by the concept of...
Naturalismbeganasabranchofliteraryrealism,andrealismhadfavoredfact,logic,andimpersonalityovertheimaginative,symbolic,andsupernatural.Naturalismisapessimisticformofrealism,aharsherone,withdeterministicviewofmanandsociety.Dreiser,Crane,andNorriswerealsojournalists,andthusattemptedtoimmersethemselvesintheworldoffactviathe...
Bell, Michael Davitt.The Problem of American Realism: Studies in the Cultural History of a Literary Idea. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Provides compelling readings of the canonical authors, suggesting little common ground beyond the fact that both realism and naturalism explicitly rejec...
美国文学简史American NaturalismAmerican Naturalism American Naturalism is a critical term applied to the method of literary composition that aims at a detached, scientific objectivity in the treatment of natural man. It is thus more inclusive and less selective than realism, and holds to the ...
AmericanNaturalism(1890-1914)•III.Subjects•wars•slums•poverty,crime,alcoholics,violence,sex,•prostitution…•IV.Style•scientificobjectivity AmericanNaturalism(1890-1914)•V.Representatives(Americannaturalists)•StephenCrane•TheodoreDreiser StephenCrane(1871-1900)StephenCrane(1871-1900)•I....
Hounded beyond all bounds of reason: Morality and the sublime in American literary naturalism.American literary naturalists use theories of the sublime derived from Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant that have gone largely unexplored by scholars yet appear unique to the writing style. Significant ...
I. Definition of American Naturalism 1.Time: As a literary movement, naturalism grew out of the 19th century realism. 2. Theoretical sources: a. Charles Darwin (1809-1882) : The evolutionary theory in his “The Origin of Species”---“the fittest, the survival” in...
AmericanNaturalism Naturalismpessimisticrealism Late19th-andearly20th-centuryliteraryapproachofFrenchoriginthatvividlydepictedsocialproblemsandviewedhumanbeingsashelplessvictimsoflargersocialandeconomicforces. I.Naturalism 1.Background Industrialism:Industrialismproducedfinancialgiantsaswellasanindustrialproletariat.Slumsappeared...
The American Naturalism1美国文学自然主义部分 VI.NaturalismandMuckraking 1.ThereasonsonthecomingofAmericanNaturalism:1)Industrialismproducedfinancialgiants,butatthesametimecreatedanindustrialproletariatentirelyatthemercyofexternalforcesbeyondtheircontrol.2)Newideasaboutmanandman’splaceintheuniversebegantotakerootin...