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CHAPTER I
IHTRODUCTIOH
American literary criticism Mas been much concerned in
recent years with the group of writers commonly known as
naturaliata. A diacuesion of this group usually begins with
Stephen Gran© and Prank Morris in the 1890's and extends
through suoh novelists as Jack London, Theodore Dreiser,
John Dos Passos, and James fF&rrell. The one thing that
these writers have in common is the belief—.emphasized more
by some than by other©—that man is s more or less helpless
pewn to cosnological, social, or psychological pressures.
Suoh writers. It has often been pointed out, have been the
real shapers of American fiction! they, more than any other
group, have determined the subject matter and method of
treatment of the characteristically American novel during
the twentieth century.^
Since moat naturalistic novels ere concerned with
sociological problems, much of the criticism has been socio-
logical. In some cases, critics have rated works of a
sociological nature higher than other works by the same
writer for no other reason, apparently, then that the
^See, for example, George Snell, The Shapers of Aiaerl-
can Fiction (Hew York, 1947).
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Swadley, Don R. Impressionism in the Prose Fiction of Stephen Crane, thesis, 1955; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc107867/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .