American Literary Naturalism A Divided Stream

Download or read book American Literary Naturalism written by Charles Child Walcutt and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1973 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walcutt's thesis is that naturalism in American literature is an offspring of transcendentalism. He sees literary Naturalism as a philosophy that partly defies Nature and partly submits to Nature. The works of naturalist writers of the early twentieth century possess a tension not present in works of the nineteenth century.