198 Pages
by
Routledge
197 Pages
by
Routledge
197 Pages
by
Routledge
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The naturalist tradition in American fiction was a product of the tremendous changes wrought in late nineteenth-century America by the development of science and technology and by the intellectual upheavals associated with the ideas of Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. This book is an account of naturalism, perhaps the strongest and most influential intellectual tradition or, as Harold Kaplan... Read more
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
Biography
Harold Kaplan
