The Nonhuman in American Literary Naturalism
The Nonhuman in American Literary Naturalism Editors: Kenneth K Brandt and Karin M Danielsson
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At the end of the 19th century, American authors such as Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and Jack London were influenced by new advances in science—notably the idea of evolution. Nature and the nonhuman were crucial for these writers, whom scholars most often group under the rubric of American literary naturalists. Traditional scholarship on American literary naturalism has closely attended to various environmental pressures in urban and wilderness ...