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Overview"The Vast and Terrible Drama is a critical study of the context in which authors such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and Jack London created their most significant work. In 1896 Frank Norris wrote: """"Terrible things must happen to the characters of the naturalistic tale. They must be twisted from the ordinary...and flung into the throes of a vast and terrible drama."""" There could be """"no teacup tragedies here."""" This volume broadens our understanding of literary naturalism as a response to these and other aesthetic concerns of the 19th century. Themes addressed include the traditionally close connection between French naturalism and American literary naturalism; relationships between the movement and the romance tradition in American literature, as well as with utopian fictions of the 19th century; narrative strategies employed by the key writers; the dominant naturalist theme of determinism; and textual readings that provide broad examples of the role of the reader. By examining these and other aspects of American literary naturalism, Link counters a century of criticism that has perhaps viewed literary naturalism too narrowly, as a subset of realism, bound by the conventions of realistic narration." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Eric Carl Link , Gary ScharnhorstPublisher: The University of Alabama Press Imprint: The University of Alabama Press Edition: 3rd ed. Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.522kg ISBN: 9780817313852ISBN 10: 0817313850 Pages: 231 Publication Date: 31 March 2004 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsThis work makes original and significant contributions to American literary scholarship. . . . Ranging from William Bradford in the 17th century to Theodore Dreiser in the early 20th, the book positions American literary naturalism in the appropriate, large-scale historical context both intellectual and artistic for theorizing about the school's discrete identity. --Joseph R. McElrath, author of Frank Norris Revisited Eric Carl Link's book distinguishes itself from previous accounts of American literary naturalism by exploring the relationship of its participants with its dialogical social, political, and economic context. [ . . .] he creatively and successfully applies Bakhtinian theory to a genre and school of criticism to transform it into offering a variety of methodological approaches that permit it to engage post-structuralism and new historicism. --Modern Language Review [ . . .} while The Vast and Terrible Drama joins an already hefty collection of critical work on the much-discussed literary style of naturalism, it also makes a unique and valuable contribution to it. --Hollins Critic [ . . . ] both of the book's larger goals -- to trace the rise of naturalism in antebellum romanticism and to link this particular critical project to earlier modes of scholarship -- will make the book useful for graduate students beginning to explore the field. It serves as a good introduction not only to naturalist writers, especially Norris, but to some of the central concerns of literary scholars in this field, specifically the novel's intervention in larger debates in science and economics. And it offers a powerful reminder, still necessary it seems, that literary criticism did not begin with deconstruction. --American Studies Review Eric Carl Link s book distinguishes itself from previous accounts of American literary naturalism by exploring the relationship of its participants with its dialogical social, political, and economic context. [ . . .] he creatively and successfully applies Bakhtinian theory to a genre and school of criticism to transform it into offering a variety of methodological approaches that permit it to engage post-structuralism and new historicism. Modern Language Review [ . . .} while The Vast and Terrible Drama joins an already hefty collection of critical work on the much-discussed literary style of naturalism, it also makes a unique and valuable contribution to it. Hollins Critic [ . . . ] both of the book's larger goals -- to trace the rise of naturalism in antebellum romanticism and to link this particular critical project to earlier modes of scholarship -- will make the book useful for graduate students beginning to explore the field. It serves as a good introduction not only to naturalist writers, especially Norris, but to some of the central concerns of literary scholars in this field, specifically the novel's intervention in larger debates in science and economics. And it offers a powerful reminder, still necessary it seems, that literary criticism did not begin with deconstruction. American Studies Review Author InformationEric Carl Link is Hugh Shott Professor of English at North Georgia College & State University and coauthor of Neutral Ground: New Traditionalism and the American Romance Controversy. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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