Henry Adams and the American Naturalist Tradition

ISBN-13: 9781138524781 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 197 str.

Harold Kaplan

Opis

This book is an account of naturalism, perhaps the strongest and most influential intellectual tradition or, as Harold Kaplan would argue, mythology to affect modern American literature and culture.

Spis treści

Preface
1. The Myth of Power
2. The Naturalist Ethos
3. Henry Adams: The Metapolitics of Power and Order
4. The Dehumanization of Politics
5. Naturalist Fiction and Political Allegory
6. Vitalism and Redemptive Violence
7. "Godlike Reality": A Testing and Truthful Violence
Notes
Index

O autorze

Harold Kaplan