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Article: Naturalism in Fiction
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Naturalism in Fiction
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An Increasingly Urban Landscape.
The late nine-teenth century was a testing ground for such cherished American ideals as optimism, individualism, and the myth of the self-made man. Americans had long subscribed to an agrarian idyll: a belief that
—
in Thomas Jefferson
’
s words
—
“
cultivators of the earth
”
were
“
the most vigorous, the most independant
[sic],
the most virtuous
”
of citizens. Over the course of the nineteenth century, however, the face of the American landscape changed. In 1850 the population of New York City stood at just under 700,000; by 1900 it had risen to more than 3.4 million. The population ...
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