Studies in American Naturalism

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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 14, Number 2 (Winter 2019)
Essays
Awkwardly Unsettling Minstrel Realism and Lynch Mentality in Crane’s “The Monster”
Ambar Meneses

Degeneration and the Failure of Recognition in Harold Frederic’s The Damnation of Theron Ware
Michael James Rizza

Nordau, Darkly: The Degenerating Aesthetics of Frank Norris’s Vandover and the Brute
Lina Kuhn

“He forgot the pain of his life”: Cormac McCarthy’s Cities of the Plain and the Affordances of Optical Democracy
Fredrik Svensson

Reviews
Frank Norris and American Naturalism, by Donald Pizer
John Dudley

Narrative Machine: The Naturalist, Modernist, and Postmodernist Novel, by Zena Meadowsong
Dan Colson

Picture, by Lillian Ross
Kevin J. Hayes

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 (preferably by e-mail):

Keith Newlin
Studies in American Naturalism
Department of English
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Wilmington,NC 28403
newlink@uncw.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
Keith Newlin, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Book Review Editor
Anita Duneer, Rhode Island College

Editorial Board
Renate von Bardeleben, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz
Donna Campbell, Washington State University
Patrick K. Dooley, St. Bonaventure University
Clare Eby, University of Connecticut, Hartford
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
Richard Lehan, University of California, Los Angeles
Eric Carl Link, Indiana University– Purdue University Fort Wayne
Jerome Loving, Texas A & M University
Donald Pizer, Tulane University
Jeanne Campbell Reesman, University of Texas at San Antonio
Thomas P. Riggio, University of Connecticut
Nancy M. Shawcross, University of California, Los Angeles
James L. W. West III, Pennsylvania State University

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 15, 2019

Manuscripts should be sent to
Roark Mulligan
mulligan@cnu.edu

Featured Articles

New and Notable from Studies in American Naturalism

"The Five Suicides of Martin Eden" (Vol. 13, No. 2, 2018)

"The New Naturalism: Cormac McCarthy, Frank Norris, and the Question of Postmodernism" (Vol. 9, No. 1, 2014)
"Prostitution, Primitivism, Performativity: The Bare Life in Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle" (Vol. 10, No. 1, 2015)
"Counting Success and Measuring Value: Money, Numbers, and Abstraction in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie" (Vol. 12, No. 1, 2017)

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

Syllabus Builder: Willa Cather

Our Syllabus Builder resource sheets are intended to assist instructors looking for supplemental materials and students seeking ideas for research papers by providing links to a variety of peer-reviewed articles online.

Syllabus Builder: Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

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