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... naturalism to which his disposition was equally alien , was stung when the romanticists in full pack accused him of triviality and dullness . In November , 1889 , he wrote bitterly in Harper's : When you have portrayed " passion ...
... naturalism to which his disposition was equally alien , was stung when the romanticists in full pack accused him of triviality and dullness . In November , 1889 , he wrote bitterly in Harper's : When you have portrayed " passion ...
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... naturalism suited his temperament ex- actly . Naturalism was Dreiser's instinctive response to life ; it linked him with these novelists of the modern era , like Hamsun and Gorki , who found in the boundless freedom of naturalism the ...
... naturalism suited his temperament ex- actly . Naturalism was Dreiser's instinctive response to life ; it linked him with these novelists of the modern era , like Hamsun and Gorki , who found in the boundless freedom of naturalism the ...
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... naturalism and preserved some feeling for its philosophical design . After Dos Passos , perhaps the last naturalist in American prose who had a conscious conception of naturalism as a philosophy of life , naturalism was no longer a ...
... naturalism and preserved some feeling for its philosophical design . After Dos Passos , perhaps the last naturalist in American prose who had a conscious conception of naturalism as a philosophy of life , naturalism was no longer a ...
Contents
The Opening Struggle for Realism | 1 |
American Fin de Siècle | 37 |
Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser | 53 |
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