a ISBN 0-252-024028-

a ISBN 0-252-06704-5

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng

a Classification number PS374.C5

b Item number D46 1998

a Dewey Classification 813.009/321732

a Personal name Den Tandt Christophe

d Dates associated with a name 1959

a Title The urban sublime in American literary naturalism /

c Statement of responsibility, etc Christophe Den Tandt.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Urbana :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc University of Illinois Press,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc c1998.

a Extent xiv, 288 p. ;

c Dimensions 24 cm.

a General note Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1993.

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-275) and index.

a Formatted contents note 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.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element American fiction

y Chronological subdivision 19th century

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element American fiction

y Chronological subdivision 20th century

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element City and town life in literature

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Cities and towns in literature

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Sublime The in literature

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Naturalism in literature