Den Tandt Christophe  1959 <br/><br/>
The urban sublime in American literary naturalism / 
Christophe Den Tandt. 
 - Urbana :  University of Illinois Press,  c1998. 
 - xiv, 288 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1993. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-275) and index. 
<br/><br/>Pt. 1. Realist and Naturalist Discourses of the Urban World. 1. From the Natural to the Urban Sublime. 2. Critical Reassessments of American Realism and Naturalism. 3. The Limits of Urban Realism: William Dean Howells's A Hazard of New Fortunes. 4. Sublime Horizons, Vitalist Mysteries: Theodore Dreiser's Naturalist Metropolis. 5. Domus versus Megalopolis: Local and Global Epistemologies of the City -- Pt. 2. Mysteries of Production and Exchange. 6. The Discovery of the Urban Market: Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie. 7. Sublime (Re)production: Frank Norris's The Octopus and The Pit. 8. Pastoralism Reconstructed: Jack London's The Valley of the Moon -- Pt. 3. The Sociology of the Naturalist Sublime. 9. The "Common Lot" of 1890s and 1900s Realism: Middle-Class Responses to the Metropolis. 10. Naturalist Gothic: Population Economics and Urban Genealogies. 11. The Politics of Hypnotic Persuasion -- Pt. 4. Novels of Artistic Education. 12. Overcivilization and the Crisis of Writerly Manhood. 13. Naturalist Gothic and the Regeneration of Artistic Identity. 14. On the Threshold of the Metropolis: The Construction of Naturalist Bohemia. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0252024028  0252067045 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American fiction--History and criticism--19th century<br/>American fiction--History and criticism--20th century<br/>City and town life in literature<br/>Cities and towns in literature<br/>Sublime The in literature<br/>Naturalism in literature
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS374.C5 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813.009/321732