ISSN 1931-2555
eISSN 1944-6519
Studies in American Naturalism is published for the International Theodore Dreiser Society.
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
Statement of Publishing Ethics
Keith Newlin
University of North Carolina Wilmington
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
Editor
Keith Newlin, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Associate Editor
Hannah Huber, University of the South
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
Donald Pizer, Tulane University
Jeanne Campbell Reesman, University of Texas, San Antonio
Thomas P. Riggio, University of Connecticut
James L. W. West III, Pennsylvania State University
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
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)
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