The Nonhuman in American Literary Naturalism

The Nonhuman in American Literary Naturalism offers a new perspective on American literary naturalism that considers those under-researched aspects of the genre that can be gathered under the term the Nonhuman. The contributors, an international team of scholars, have turned their attention to that which becomes visible when the human subject is skirted, or perhaps, temporarily at least, moved off-center: in other words, the representation of nonhuman animals and other vital or inert species, things, entities, cityscapes and seascapes, that also appear and play an important part in American literary naturalism. Informed by animal studies, ecocriticism, posthumanism, new materialism, and other recent theoretical and philosophical perspectives, the essays in this collection discuss early naturalist texts by Norris, Crane, Dreiser, London, Wharton and Cather, as well as more recent followers in the tradition of American literary naturalism: Hemingway, Agee & Evans, Petry, Hamilton, Dick, Vonnegut, Tepper, and DeLillo. The collection responds to a need to expand and refine the connections among nonhuman studies and texts associated with American literary naturalism and to productively expand the scholarly discourse surrounding this vital movement in American literary history.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books-Fortress Academic
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Release date:	October 2023
Editors:	Karin M. Danielsson • Kenneth K. Brandt
Contributors:	Paul Baggett • Paul Crumbley • Daniel Dufournaud • Ingemar Haag • Ryan Hediger • Cara Erdheim Kilgallen • Markku Lehtimäki • Patti Luedecke
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Pages:	286
ISBN-13:	978-1-66691-570-9
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-66691-570-X
Barcode:	9781666915709

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