Studies in American Naturalism

Edited by Hannah Huber

ISSN 1931-2555

eISSN 1944-6519

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About

Studies in American Naturalism publishes critical essays, documents, notes, bibliographies, and reviews concerning American literary naturalism, broadly conceived. It presents contributions illuminating the texts and contexts of naturalism across all genres from its nineteenth-century origins to its twentieth- and twenty-first century transformations.

Studies in American Naturalism is published for the International Theodore Dreiser Society.

Volume 18, No. 1 (Summer 2023)
Contents
2023 Robert H. Elias Prize Winner
Fossil-Fueled Naturalism and Pastoral Optimism in the Novels of Dreiser, Norris, and Sinclair
Megan Cole Lyle

Essays
Naturalism and the New Woman: Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie and Grant Allen’s The Woman Who Did
Gary Totten

Stephen Crane’s Oxen: Class Blindness and Animalism in The Third Violet
Lloyd Sy

Excess and A New Pornographic Imagination: Escalations of Neonaturalism in Transnational Visual Culture
Part I: Departure
Klaus H. Schmidt

Preview & Summary
Excess and A New Pornographic Imagination: Escalations of Neonaturalism in Transnational Visual Culture
Part II: Arrival
Klaus H. Schmidt

Reviews
Unguessed Kinships: Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthy, by Steven Frye
Russell M. Hillier

The Nonhuman in American Literary Naturalism, edited by Kenneth K. Brandt and Karin M. Danielsson
Gary Totten

Pain and the Aesthetics of U.S. Literary Realism, by Cynthia J. Davis
Adam H. Wood

New Perspectives on Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Reading with and Against the Grain, edited by Stephanie Palmer, Myrto Drizou, and Cécile Roudeau
Cara Erdheim Kilgallen

Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American Modernity, by Patrick Kindig
Yair Solan

Submissions & Book Reviews

Statement of Publishing Ethics

Submissions
Studies in American Naturalism publishes critical essays, documents, notes, bibliographies, and reviews concerning American literary naturalism, broadly conceived. Published twice each year by the International Theodore Dreiser Society and the University of Nebraska Press, the journal seeks contributions illuminating the texts and contexts of naturalism across all genres from its nineteenth-century origins to its twentieth-and twenty-first century transformations. Manuscripts should follow either the 7th or 8th editions of the MLA Handbook. Occasionally, some editorial revision is necessary to meet space or style requirements. Reviews are assigned. Electronic submissions are encouraged, either as Word or PDF files. Please identify yourself on a cover page and not on the manuscript itself, and include postal and email addresses and a telephone number.

Manuscripts should be sent to the editor by e-mail:

Hannah Huber
Volunteer State Community College
hannah.huber@volstate.edu

Books for review should be sent to

Anita Duneer
Department of English
Rhode Island College
600 Mount Pleasant Avenue
Providence, RI 02908
aduneer@ric.edu

Editorial Board

Editor
Hannah Huber, Volunteer State Community College

Book Review Editor
Anita Duneer, Rhode Island College

Editorial Board
Renate von Bardeleben, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz
Donna Campbell, Washington State University
Jude Davies, University of Winchester
Patrick K. Dooley, St. Bonaventure University
John Dudley, University of South Dakota
Steven Frye, California State University, Bakersfield
James R. Giles, Northern Illinois University
Yoshinobu Hakutani, Kent State University
Barbara Hochman, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Linda Kornasky, Angelo State University
Eric Carl Link, University of North Dakota
Zena Meadowsong, Rowan University
Jeanne Campbell Reesman, University of Texas, San Antonio
Thomas P. Riggio, University of Connecticut
Alan Gibbs, University College Cork
Kenneth Brandt, Savannah College of Art and Design
Yair Solan, Nova Southeastern University
Keith Newlin, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Announcements

Article Sales
Single articles from Studies in American Naturalism are now available for purchase through Project MUSE.

The Robert H. Elias Essay Prize
The Robert H. Elias Essay Prize, named after the pioneering Dreiser scholar, is sponsored by the International Theodore Dreiser Society and is awarded annually to the graduate student or untenured faculty member who submits the best previously unpublished essay on the topic of naturalism or on the work of a naturalist author. Elias knew Dreiser and wrote the first official biography, Theodore Dreiser, Apostle of Nature (1949), and his groundbreaking three-volume edition of Dreiser’s letters (1959) was the standard collection of the novelist’s general correspondence for fifty years.

Applicants may submit essays that consider any aspect of naturalism, broadly conceived. We are especially interested in essays that push the boundaries of conventional conceptions of naturalism and those that make a case for extending traditional interpretations to later writers or that establish connections to other literary movements. In addition to a cash award of $250, the winning essay will appear in Studies in American Naturalism, a peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the Society. Other worthy essays besides the winner will be considered for publication as well. Electronic submissions are encouraged, either as Word or PDF files. Please identify yourself on a cover page and not on the manuscript itself, and include a postal mailing address and telephone number.

Deadline: July 31, 2025

Manuscripts should be sent to:
Hannah Huber
hannah.huber@volstate.edu

Featured Articles

Trending Articles - Summer 2021

"The New Naturalism: Cormac McCarthy, Frank Norris, and the Question of Postmodernism" (Vol. 9 No. 1, 2014)

“'The Infernal Machine:' Imperial America and John Sayles’s A Moment in the Sun" (Vol. 9 No. 1, 2014)

"The Mouth Trap: Orality and the Rabelaisian Grotesque in Norris’s McTeague" (Vol. 9 No. 1, 2014)

"Julian Hawthorne Reviews The Octopus" (Vol. 5 No. 2, 2010)

“'You can’t buck against the railroad:' The Arthurian World of Frank Norris’s The Octopus" (Vol. 9 No. 1, 2014)

Sponsoring Society

A growing organization of scholars, teachers, and Dreiser enthusiasts, the International Theodore Dreiser Society promotes interest in the life and works of Theodore Dreiser and those associated with him. Members receive subscriptions to the society's journal, Studies in American Naturalism, as a benefit of membership.

Resources

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