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Week 5.1: US Literary Naturalism



Reading:
Frank Norris, "Zola as a Romantic Writer," 586-9
Theodore Dreiser (595-6-8), Sister Carrie (selections), 597-611
Stephen Crane (611-3), from War is Kind, 631-2

Study Questions:
1. How does Norris define romance? How does he distinguish it from realism?


2. How does the tone of Dreiser's Sister Carrie compare to that of James's Daisy Miller? How does this reflect the difference between realism and naturalism?

3. What is the worldview of Crane's poetry?