Volume 17, Number 1 (Summer 2022)
Contents
Essays
“Vast, Vague and Impersonal”: Statistics, Ecology, and the Aesthetics of Scale in Frank Norris’s The Octopus
Andrew Herbard
Through “the rose window of the west”: Nostalgia, Gothicism, and the Imaginary in Theodore Dreiser’s A Hoosier Holiday
Donna Packer-Kinlaw
Theodore Dreiser and the Realm of the Social
Jude Davies
“This place killed him”: Reservation Dogs Flirts with Naturalism
Lee Schweninger
Reviews
The Selected Literary Letters of Paul Laurence Dunbar, edited by Cynthia C. Murillo and Jennifer M. Nader
John Dudley
Jack London and the Sea, by Anita Duneer
Kenneth K. Brandt
Combating Injustice: The Naturalism of Frank Norris, Jack London, & John Steinbeck, by Jon Falsarella Dawson
Steven Bembridge
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane, by Paul Auster
Carleigh Smith
The Nadir and the Zenith: Temperance and Excess in the Early African American Novel, by Anna Pochmara
Michaela Corning-Myers