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urban sublime in American literary naturalism
From the natural to the urban sublime -- Critical reassessments of American realism and naturalism -- The limits of urban realism : William Dean Howells's A hazard of new fortunes -- Sublime horizons, vitalist mysteries : Theodore Dreiser's naturalist metropolis -- Domus versus megalopolis : local and global epistemologies of the city -- The discovery of the urban market : Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie -- Sublime (re)production : Frank Norris's The octopus and The pit -- Pastoralism reconstructed : Jack London's Valley of the moon -- The "common lot" of 1890s and 1900s realism : middle-class responses to the metropolis -- Naturalist gothic : population economics and urban genealogies -- The politics of hypnotic persuasion -- Overcivilization and the crisis of writerly manhood -- Naturalist gothic and the regeneration of artistic identity -- On the threshold of the metropolis : the construction of naturalist bohemia.
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1993.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-275) and index.