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Frank Norris Remembered is a collection of reminiscences by Norris's contemporaries, friends, and family that illuminate the life of one of America's most popular novelists. Considering his undergraduate education spent studying art at Académie Julian in Paris and creative writing at Harvard and his journalism career reporting from the far reaches of South Africa and Cuba, it is difficult to fathom how Frank Norris also found time to compose seven novels during the course of his brief life. But despite his adventures abroad, Norris turned out novels at

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The test of western literature has invariably been Is it real? Is it accurate? Authentic? The result is a standard anything but literary, as Nathaniel Lewis observes in this ambitious work, a wholesale rethinking of the critical terms and contexts-and thus of the very nature-of western writing. Why is western writing virtually missing from the American literary canon but a frequent success in the marketplace? The skewed status of western literature, Lewis contends, can be directly attributed to the strategies of the region's writers, and these strategies depend consistently on the claim of authenticity. A perusal of western American authorship reveals how these writers effectively present themselves as accurate and reliable recorders of real places, histories, and cultures-but not as stylists or inventors. The imaginative qualities of this literature are thus obscured in the name of authentic reproduction. Through a study of a set of western authors and their relationships to literary and cultural history, Lewis offers a reconsideration of the deceptive and often undervalued history of western American literature. With unequivocal admiration for the literature under scrutiny, Lewis exposes the potential for startling new readings once western writing is freed from its insistence on a questionable authenticity. His book sets out a broader system of inquiry that points writers and critics of western literature in the direction of a new and truly sustaining literary tradition.

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"The 16 essays in this collection explore the distinctive qualities of America's textual engagement with Darwinism--the ways in which Darwinian language and theories have made their way into American Literary and cultural texts, providing writers a new vocabulary to describe human affairs and interactions with other living organisms. The editors argue that attention to the specifics of Darwin's place in the American scene is vital in light of the particularities of the reception and uses of evolutionary theory in the U.S.--i.e. the nation's melting pot identity, its slave past, its particular brands of social Darwinism, and its school of Pragmatist philosophy. In her review of the proposal, Laura Dassow Walls pointed out that one of the most exciting aspects of this project is that the editors and authors are reading a wide range of Darwin's own texts and thereby recovering the Darwin that Americans actually encountered, the more subtle and challenging Darwin who energized modernist American literature, not the Social Darwinist constructed by Herbert Spencer"-- "While much has been written about the impact of Darwin's theories on U.S. culture, and countless scholarly collections have been devoted to the science of evolution, few have addressed the specific details of Darwin's theories as a cultural force affecting U.S. writers. America's Darwin fills this gap and features a range of critical approaches that examine U.S. textual responses to Darwin's works.The scholars in this collection represent a range of disciplines--literature, history of science, women's studies, geology, biology, entomology, and anthropology. All pay close attention to the specific forms that Darwinian evolution took in the United States, engaging not only with Darwin's most famous works, such as On the Origin of Species, but also with less familiar works, such as The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Each contributor considers distinctive social, cultural, and intellectual conditions that affected the reception and dissemination of evolutionary thought, from before the publication of On the Origin of Species to the early years of the twenty-first century. These essays engage with the specific details and language of a wide selection of Darwin's texts, treating his writings as primary sources essential to comprehending the impact of Darwinian language on American writers and thinkers. This careful engagement with the texts of evolution enables us to see the broad points of its acceptance and adoption in the American scene; this approach also highlights the ways in which writers, reformers, and others reconfigured Darwinian language to suit their individual purposes. America's Darwin demonstrates the many ways in which writers and others fit themselves to a narrative of evolution whose dominant motifs are contingency and uncertainty. Collectively, the authors make the compelling case that the interpretation of evolutionary theory in the U.S. has always shifted in relation to prevailing cultural anxieties"--

Darwinisme social dans la littérature --- Evolutie (Biologie) in de literatuur --- Evolution (Biologie) dans la littérature --- Evolution (Biology) in literature --- Sociaal Darwinisme in de literatuur --- Social Darwinism in literature --- American literature --- History and criticism --- Darwin, Charles Robert --- Influence --- Literature and science --- United States --- Social Darwinism --- James, William --- Criticism and interpretation --- Burroughs, John --- Melville, Herman --- Wharton, Edith Newbold --- Bellamy, Edward --- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins --- Norris, Frank --- Morgan, Lewis Henry --- London, Jack --- Boyle, T. Coraghessan --- SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- Social Darwinism in literature. --- Evolution (Biology) in literature. --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- History and criticism. --- Darwin, Charles, --- Influence.

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Fiction --- Thematology --- American literature --- Cities and towns in literature --- City and town life in literature --- Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920. A Hazard of New Fortunes --- Littérature réaliste --- London, Jack, 1876-1916. The Valley of the Moon --- Naturalism in literature --- Naturalisme dans la littérature --- Naturalisme in de literatuur --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Neorealisme (Literatuur) --- Norris, Frank, 1870-1902. The Octopus --- Norris, Frank, 1870-1902. The Pit --- Néoréalisme (Littérature) --- Realism (Literary movement) --- Realism in literature --- Realisme (Letterkundige beweging) --- Realisme (Literaire beweging) --- Realisme in de literatuur --- Realistische literatuur --- Réalisme (Mouvement littéraire) --- Réalisme dans la littérature --- Stadsleven in de literatuur --- Steden in de literatuur --- Sublieme [Het ] in de literatuur --- Sublime [Le ] dans la littérature --- Sublime [The ] in literature --- Vie urbaine dans la littérature --- Villes dans la littérature --- American fiction --- City and town life in literature. --- Cities and towns in literature. --- Sublime, The, in literature. --- Naturalism in literature. --- Roman américain --- Sublime dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- #BIBC:ruil --- Roman américain --- Vie urbaine dans la littérature --- Villes dans la littérature --- Sublime dans la littérature --- Naturalisme dans la littérature --- Sublime, The, in literature --- History and criticism --- 19th century --- 20th century --- Cather, Willa Sibert --- Herrick, Robert --- Criticism and interpretation