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Article: The Vast and Terrible Drama: American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2008
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The Vast and Terrible Drama: American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century. By ERIC CARL LINK. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2004. x+ 167 pp. 23 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8173-1385-2.
Eric Carl Link's book distinguishes itself from previous accounts of American literary naturalism by exploring the relationship of its participants with its dialogical social, political, and economic context. Link's objective is to chart the ways in which American literary naturalism has come to be defined via contextual debates in periodicals, so as to problematize reductive accounts of the genre's narrative techniques and promote its evident relevance ...