American naturalism / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-359) and index.

Zola as a romantic writer / Frank Norris -- Reality in America / Lionel Trilling -- Notes on the decline of naturalism / Philip Rahv -- Naturalism in American literature / Malcolm Cowley -- Late nineteenth-century American naturalism / Donald Pizer -- Panoramic environment and the anonymity of the self / Richard Poirier -- Studs Lonigan and the failure of history in mass society: a study in claustrophobia / Ann Douglas -- Naturalist fiction and political allegory / Harold Kaplan -- American literary naturalism: the French connection / Richard Lehan -- Beyond naturalism? / Michel Fabre -- The naturalist novel and the city: temporary worlds / Philip Fisher -- The revolt against style: Frank Norris / Michael Davitt Bell -- Contemporary American literary naturalism / Donald Pizer -- The awakening and the house of mirth: plotting experience and experiencing plot / Barbara Hochman -- Dreiser, London, Crane, and the iron madonna / Donna M. Campbell -- Chronology.