In his first book devoted exclusively to naturalism, Donald Pizer brings together thirteen essays and four reviews written over a thirty-year period that in the

After its heyday in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, naturalism, a genre that typically depicts human beings as the product of biological and en

Pizer explores six novels to define naturalism and explain its tenacious hold throughout the twentieth century on the American creative imagination.

American Literary Naturalism, a Divided Stream was first published in 1956. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books on

Form and History in American Literary Naturalism