Studies in American Naturalism 12:1

Studies in American Naturalism 12:1

Edited by Keith Newlin
Guest edited by James Dorson and Regina Schober

Table Of Contents

Volume 12, Number 1 (2017)
Contents

Special Issue: Data Fiction: Naturalism, Narrative, and Numbers
Guest Editors: James Dorson and Regina Schober

Essays
Introduction
James Dorson and Regina Schober

The Vital and the Statistical
Jennifer L. Fleissner

Hypereconomics: Frank Norris, Thomas Piketty, and Neoclassical Economic Romance 
Jason Puskar

Rates, Romance, and Regulated Monopoly in Frank Norris’s The Octopus
James Dorson

“A Problem in Small Boat Navigation”: Ocean Metaphors and Emerging Data Epistemology in Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” and Jack London’s “The Heathen”
Regina Schober

Counting Success and Measuring Value: Money, Numbers, and Abstraction in Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie
Ulfried Reichardt

Domestic Data and Feminist Momentum: The Narrative Accounting of Helen Stuart Campbell and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Katherine A. Fama

The Wire, Big Data, and the Specter of Naturalism
Laura Bieger