Twisted from the Ordinary: Essays on American Literary Naturalism (Tennessee Studies in Literature)

The essays in this volume revise the canon of naturalism, looking beyond the classic period of the 1890s to uncover naturalistic tendencies already at work in such mid-nineteenth-century authors as Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and to elucidate the naturalistic themes exploited more recently in postmodern authors such as Raymond Carver and Don DeLillo.