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Wilson, Sara Curnow.

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Unnaturalism: British Literary Naturalism Between the Wars.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Unnaturalism: British Literary Naturalism Between the Wars./
Author:	Wilson, Sara Curnow.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	176 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-10A(E).
Subject:	British & Irish literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10262398
ISBN:	9781369792799

Unnaturalism: British Literary Naturalism Between the Wars.
Wilson, Sara Curnow.

Unnaturalism: British Literary Naturalism Between the Wars. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 176 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Temple University, 2017.

My dissertation explores a turn in British literature back toward naturalism in the late modernist period, a literary move I call unnaturalism to refer to the way it resembles but deviates from the classic naturalist tradition of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. In the 1930s, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Jean Rhys, and George Orwell separately play with the form that can best merge literature and politics. The resulting novels--- The Years (1937), Murphy (1938), Good Morning, Midnight (1939), and Coming Up for Air (1939)---might not all look like naturalism, but they share a concern with determinism and social conditions, a tendency toward extreme external detail, and an engagement with contemporary scientific and medical discourse. Socially and politically engaged, these writers work to expose the mechanics behind the 'natural' order and reveal social determinism misrepresented as biological determinism. Rather than work to disprove or deny this way of understanding the world, the novels of my study complicate all singular understandings of human development. In short, these writers recover naturalist conventions in order to expose a functional determinism that is not rooted in biology---is not, in another word, natural---but rather constructed and reconstructed by contemporary discourses.

ISBN: 9781369792799Subjects--Topical Terms:

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British & Irish literature.

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