DLB 12: American Realists and Naturalists (Dictionary of Literary Biography, 12) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810311496 ISBN 13: 9780810311497

Publisher: Gale Research Inc, 1982

Synopsis

Americas Civil War not only brought to an end the transcendental idealism of the early nineteenth century, it also marked the beginning of an era of significant growth for a largely commercial and urban middle class. With an audience seeking works that rendered American life in the light of common day, writers of realistic and naturalistic fiction flourished-two distinct generations of writers, each generation sharing a similar set of assumptions about literature. Both groups expressed a vision of life which their contemporaries shared, combining autobiographical and comic threads and revealing themes through action. American modernism has its roots in writing represented in this DLB volume-turn-of-the-century writers (most born in the early 1870s) who helped create the modern temper in America in the years preceding the first World War.

42 entries include: Henry Adams, Edward Bellamy, Samuel L. Clemens, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Mary Wilkins Freema, Bret Harte, Henry James, Jack London, Frederic Remington, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Constance Fenimore Woolson.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gale Research Inc
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0810311496
• ISBN 13: 9780810311497
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 486
• Editor: Pizert Donald