American Literary Naturalism - Late Essays

Informationen zum Autor Pizer is one of the leading critics and historians of the significant late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary movement known as American naturalism. Klappentext The book collects Pizer's late career essays on various writers and subjects related to American naturalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. General Essays; 1. American Naturalism: A Primer; 2. Critical Conceptions of American Realism and Naturalism, 1870-1970; Part II. Specific Writers and Works; 3. Naturalism and the Visual Arts: Dreiser, Crane, and Steinbeck; 4. Jack London's "To Build a Fire": How Not to Read Naturalist Fiction; 5. Norman Mailer, Theodore Dreiser, and the Politics of American Literary History; 6. John Dos Passos and Harlan: Three Variations on a Theme; 7. Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy and 1920s; Flapper Culture; 8. Dreiser's Relationships with Women; Part III. Donald Pizer and the Study of American Naturalism; 9. The Study of American Naturalism: A Personal Retrospective; 10. Stephen C. Brennan: Interview with Donald Pizer; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Donald Pizer, Pizer Donald
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781785275463
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-546-3
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary essays, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic & Latino, Relating to Latin / Hispanic US American people, Literature; Literary Studies