Theorizing Determinism: American Naturalism and the Question of Belief
Theorizing Determinism: American Naturalism and the Question of Belief

Summary/Abstract: My research on American literary realism has shown me that in particular American scholars often do not know and are not interested in the difference between realism and naturalism. Many of them follow the early prejudices of the young naturalists, who had the natural urge to “slay their fathers” and put down realism as too civilized, too effeminate, not tough enough to face the “real” experience of an industrial world.

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