The urban sublime in American literary naturalism /
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Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[1998]
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Table of Contents:
- From the natural to the urban sublime
- Critical reassessments of American realism and naturalism
- The limits of urban realism : William Dean Howells's A hazard of new fortunes
- Sublime horizons, vitalist mysteries : Theodore Dreiser's naturalist metropolis
- Domus versus megalopolis : local and global epistemologies of the city
- The discovery of the urban market : Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie
- Sublime (re)production : Frank Norris's The octopus and The pit
- Pastoralism reconstructed : Jack London's Valley of the moon
- The "common lot" of 1890s and 1900s realism : middle-class responses to the metropolis
- Naturalist gothic : population economics and urban genealogies
- The politics of hypnotic persuasion
- Overcivilization and the crisis of writerly manhood
- Naturalist gothic and the regeneration of artistic identity
- On the threshold of the metropolis : the construction of naturalist bohemia.