The thesis argues that American literary naturalism,blooming from the late 1890s,derives from the disillusionment of the rural gold-plating ideology of American cultural tradit...

• 美国19世纪末兴起的文学自然主义观念始源于美国传统文化中农村镀金主义意识形态的幻灭,其本土主题和叙述形式则可直接追溯到科克兰德这样农村题材小说家的创作中。