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"Examines the depiction of primitive characters in naturalist and modernist texts, focusing on works by Jack London, Frank Norris, Eugene O'Neill, Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen"--Provided by publisher.

American literature --- Primitivism in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Naturalism in literature. --- History and criticism.

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This book fundamentally rethinks a pervasive and controversial concept in literary criticism and the history of ideas. Primitivism has long been accepted as a transhistorical tendency of the "civilized" to idealize that primitive condition against which they define themselves. In the modern era, this has been a matter of the "West" projecting its primitivist fantasies onto non-Western "others." Arguing instead that primitivism was an aesthetic mode produced in reaction to the apotheosis of European imperialism, and that the most intensively primitivist literary works were produced by imperialism's colonized subjects, the book overturns basic assumptions of the last two generations of literary scholarship. Against the grain, Ben Etherington contends that primitivism was an important, if vexed, utopian project rather than a form of racist discourse, a mode that emerged only when modern capitalism was at the point of subsuming all human communities into itself. The primitivist project was an attempt, through art, to recreate a "primitive" condition then perceived to be at its vanishing point. The first overview of this vast topic in forty years, Literary Primitivism maps out previous scholarly paradigms, provides a succinct and readable account of its own methodology, and presents critical readings of key writers, including Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, D. H. Lawrence, and Claude McKay.

Primitivism in literature. --- Literature --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- History and criticism. --- Primitivism in literature --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- E-books --- Literature History and criticism

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Greek drama (Comedy) --- Noncitizens in literature. --- Primitivism in literature. --- Ethnocentrism in literature. --- Visitors, Foreign, in literature. --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism. --- Aliens in literature --- Illegal aliens in literature

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This book will change the way you think about D.H. Lawrence. Critics have tried to define him as a Georgian poet, an imagist, a vitalist, a follower of the French symbolists, a romantic or a transcendentalist, but none of the usual labels fit. The same theme runs through all his work, beginning with his very first novel, The White Peacock, and ending with the last line of his final book, Apocalypse. Always it is nature. He said this over and over again, and no one - especially those who feared the "old ways" of harmonious and balanced living on the earth - understood him.

Environmental protection --- Environmental protection in literature. --- Human ecology in literature. --- Primitivism in literature. --- Landscapes in literature. --- Nature in literature. --- Environmental protection in literature --- Human ecology in literature --- Primitivism in literature --- Landscapes in literature --- Nature in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Nature in poetry --- Landscape in literature --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Environmental sciences --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental policy --- Environmental quality --- History. --- History --- Lawrence, D. H. --- Lawrence, David Herbert --- Davison, Lawrence H. --- Lorensŭ --- Lorensŭ, D. H. --- Lourens, D. G. --- Lorenss, D. H. --- Lorens, Deĭvid Gerbert --- Lārensu, Ḍi. Ec. --- Lourens, Dėvid Gerbert --- לאורנס, ד. ה. --- לאורענס --- לורנס, ד״ה --- לורנס, ד.ה., --- לורנס, ד.ה..., --- Knowledge --- Natural history. --- Lawrence, D.H.

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Victorian Fetishism argues that fetishism was central to the development of cultural theory in the nineteenth century. From 1850 to 1900, when theories of social evolution reached their peak, European intellectuals identified all "primitive" cultures with "Primitive Fetishism," a psychological form of self-projection in which people believe everything in the external world—thunderstorms, trees, stones—is alive. Placing themselves at the opposite extreme of cultural evolution, the Victorians defined culture not by describing what culture was but by describing what it was not, and what it was not was fetishism. In analyses of major works by Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, and Edward B. Tylor, Peter Melville Logan demonstrates the paradoxical role of fetishism in Victorian cultural theory, namely, how Victorian writers projected their own assumptions about fetishism onto the realm of historical fact, thereby "fetishizing" fetishism. The book concludes by examining how fetishism became a sexual perversion as well as its place within current cultural theory.

English prose literature --- Culture --- Criticism --- Culture in literature. --- Fetishism in literature. --- Primitivism in literature. --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy --- History --- Social aspects --- Arnold, Matthew, --- Eliot, George, --- Tylor, Edward B. --- Tylor, Edward Burnett, --- Tėĭlor, Ė., --- Taile, Aidehua, --- Tylor, E. B. --- Ṭaylor, E. --- Ṭaylor, Edṿard B., --- טיילאר, ע. --- Cross, Marian Evans, --- Evans, Marian, --- Eliot, Džordž, --- Ėliot, Dzhordzh, --- Cross, Mary Ann, --- Lewes, M. E. --- Lewes, Marian Evans, --- Elliŏtʻū, Choji, --- Eliyaṭ, Jārj, --- Evans, Mary Anne, --- אליוט, ג׳ַַורג׳ --- אליוט, ג׳ורג׳, --- עליאט, דזשארדזש --- עליאט, דזשארדזש, --- עליוט ג׳יארג׳, --- עליוט, גי׳ארג׳, --- עליוט, ג׳רארג׳, --- A., --- A. --- آرنولد، ماثيو، --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Great Britain --- Intellectual life