American Realism and Naturalism

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Yet these hugely influential literary modes were notable as much for their popularity and indebtedness to American consumer culture as for their ambivalence towards American popular culture, consumerism and the very act of literary representation itself. This course traces these aesthetic and social ambivalences in works from authors such as Stowe, Howells, Twain, Henry James, Wharton, Jewett, Chesnutt, Dreiser and Norris.