LEADER 02775nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910821386503321 005 20240313235201.0 010 $a0-8173-8677-7 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060497 035 $a(EBL)1215887 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000918042 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11454507 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000918042 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10895139 035 $a(PQKB)11097364 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1215887 035 $a(OCoLC)867739417 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse25331 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1215887 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10723067 035 $a(OCoLC)851316248 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060497 100 $a20121210d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFighting words $epolemics and social change in literary naturalism /$fIra Wells 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (206 p.) 225 0$aStudies in American literary realism and naturalism 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8173-1799-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aNaturalism: 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. 330 $aFighting Words offers an entirely new understanding of what literary naturalism is and why it matters. Ira Wells, countering the standard narrative of literary naturalism's much-touted concern with environmental and philosophical determinism, draws attention to the polemical essence of the genre and demonstrates how literary naturalists engaged instead with explosive political and cultural issues that remain fervently debated today. Naturalist writers, Wells argues in Fighting Words, are united less by a coherent philosophy than by an attitude, a postur 410 0$aAmer Lit Realism & Naturalism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNaturalism in literature 606 $aSocial problems in literature 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNaturalism in literature. 615 0$aSocial problems in literature. 676 $a810.9/12 700 $aWells$b Ira$f1981-$01669526 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821386503321 996 $aFighting words$94030737 997 $aUNINA