[BOOK][B] Determined fictions: American literary naturalism
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Page 1 DETERMINED FICTIONS AMERICAN LITERARY NATURALISM LEE CLARK
MITCHELL Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Literary naturalism has never enjoyed an easy time with the
critics, perhaps because even admirers have felt compelled to concede two crippling points:
that naturalism offers a behavioral model encountered nowhere in life, and that its style falls
woefully short of standards deemed appropriate for art. In Determined Fictions, Lee Mitchell
offers a new look at American naturalism—that group of late nineteenth-century texts by …
MITCHELL Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Literary naturalism has never enjoyed an easy time with the
critics, perhaps because even admirers have felt compelled to concede two crippling points:
that naturalism offers a behavioral model encountered nowhere in life, and that its style falls
woefully short of standards deemed appropriate for art. In Determined Fictions, Lee Mitchell
offers a new look at American naturalism—that group of late nineteenth-century texts by …