American Literary Naturalism and Its Descendants

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. vii-xiv
Author(s):  
Gregory Phipps
Keyword(s):  
Literary Naturalism

The Shop-Girl Revolutionary in Henry James's The Princess Casamassima

2008 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Mullin
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Change ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Local Color ◽  
Literary Naturalism ◽  
Public House ◽  
Revolutionary Politics ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Marginal Characters

Abstract This essay argues that the complex political resonances of Henry James's The Princess Casamassima (1886) can be further elucidated through closer critical attention to one of its more marginal characters, the shop-girl Millicent Henning. Ebullient, assertive, and, for many early reviewers, the novel's sole redeeming feature, Millicent supplies the novel with far more than local color. Instead, James seizes on a sexual persona already well established within literary naturalism and popular culture alike to explore a rival mode of insurrection to that more obviously offered elsewhere. While the modes of revolution contemplated by Hyacinth Robinson and his comrades in the Sun and Moon public house are revealed to be anachronistic and ineffectual, Millicent's canny manipulation of her sexuality supplies her with an alternative, effective, and unmistakably modern mode of transformation. The novel's portrait of ““revolutionary politics of a hole-and-corner sort”” is thus set against Millicent's brand of quotidian yet inexorable social change.

scholarly journals Kryzys powieści, powieść kryzysu. Projekt wyjścia z „naturalistycznego impasu” w powieści Là-Bas Jorisa-Karla Huysmansa

1970 ◽  
pp. 231-248
Author(s):  
Karol Krzyżosiak
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Transformation ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Literary Naturalism ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Key Aspects

This article attempts to reconstruct the key aspects of the criticism of literary naturalism present in J. K. Huysmans’ 1891 novel Là-Bas. The analysis is based on the opening dialogues of the characters and the following aesthetic considerations which appear to express not only the creative and spiritual transformation of the author himself, but also the ambience of anti-positivist turn of fin de siècle which, entering modernity, tries to free itself from the reductionist frames of naturalism and reveals an increasing interest towards the unconscious.

Determined Fictions: American Literary Naturalism.

1990 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 715
Author(s):  
June Howard ◽  
Lee Clark Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Literary Naturalism

American Literary Naturalism, a Divided Stream

1958 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
George Zorn ◽  
Charles Child Walcutt
Keyword(s):  
Literary Naturalism
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