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Contents Acknowledgments ix Naturalism: A Polemical Introduction 1 1. An Education 13 2. The Polemical Nature of Naturalism in America 34 3. Against the Grain: Ecology, Environmentalism, and Frank Norris’s The Octopus 66 4. Crimes of Art and Nature: An American Tragedy and the Problem of Abortion 99 5. “What I Killed for, I Am”: Domestic Terror in Richard Wright’s America 127 Epilogue 153 Notes 159 Works Consulted 171 Index 187 ...

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