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Fighting words

Wells, Ira, 1981-

Fighting words polemics and social change in literary naturalism / [electronic resource] : Ira Wells. - Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (x, 193 pages ) - Studies in American literary realism and naturalism .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-186) 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.

9780817386771


Social problems in literature.
Naturalism in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century


Electronic books.

PS374.N29 / W46 2013

810.9/12