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Nonhuman in American Literary Naturalism

Av Karin M. Danielsson, Kenneth K. Brandt

Del i serien Ecocritical Theory and Practice

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The Nonhuman in American Literary Naturalism responds to a need to expand and refine the connections among nonhuman studies and American literary naturalism and to productively expand the scholarly discourse surrounding this vital movement in American literary history. This collection focuses on that which becomes visible when the human subject is skirted, or moved off-center: in other words, the representation of nonhuman animals and other vital or inert species, things, entities, cityscapes and seascapes, that play an important part in American literary naturalism. Informed by animal studies, ecocriticism, posthumanism, new materialism, and other recent theoretical perspectives, the essays in this collection discuss early naturalist texts as well as more recent naturalistic-oriented authors.
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Karin M. Danielsson is associate professor in English at Mälardalen University.Kenneth K. Brandt is professor of English at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

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Literary naturalism—especially in the American tradition—is a useful mode to explore the significance of the nonhuman, since it can be utilized to focus on the various nonhuman creatures, objects, and natural and created environments that affect human beings. Brandt and Danielsson consider naturalism very broadly, in some instances focusing on authors readers might not immediately connect to literary naturalism. Authors addressed in the volume include Frank Norris, Jack London, Theodore Dreiser, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, and others. The collection includes 15 essays (plus a helpful introduction cowritten by the editors) authored by an international collection of scholars of American literature who are informed by ecocriticism, animal studies, posthumanism, and cultural materialism. Essays typically rely on sophisticated theoretical positions, but the collection remains accessible and is overall an insightful and provocative exploration of the significance of the nonhuman in American literary naturalism. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

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