Fighting Words - Polemics and Social Change in Literary Naturalism

Informationen zum Autor Ira Wells is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Drama at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. He has published refereed articles in American Quarterly , University of Toronto Quarterly , and Popular Music and Society . Klappentext Offers an entirely new understanding of what literary naturalism is and why it matters. Ira Wells, countering the standard narrative of literary naturalis's much-touted concern with environmental and philosophical determinism, draws attention to the polemical essence of the genre and demonstrates how literary naturalists engaged instead with explosive political and cultural issues that remain fervently debated today. Zusammenfassung Fighting Words offers an entirely new understanding of what literary naturalism is and why it matters.

Product details

• Authors: Ira Wells
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.06.2013
• EAN: 9780817317997
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1799-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Studies in American Literary R; Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism; Studies in American Literary R; American Literary Realism and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies