Figures of the World The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form
Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form overturns Eurocentric genealogies and globalizing generalizations about "world literature" by examining the complex, contradictory history of naturalist fiction. Christopher Laing Hill follows naturalism's emergence in...
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