In “Miniver Cheevy,” Miniver’s problem is that he

Broadly speaking, the height of naturalism in American literary history can be located during what years?

In most naturalist writings, human’s occupy a privileged position because God favors his creation.

In Twain’s “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” the first narrator suspects that _________.

“All along _______________ were such houses and such people: simple, commonplace souls al lclerks, managers, fairly successful craftsmen, like her father and Barton, excellent in their way but not like Arthur the beloved, the los tand here was she, perforce, or by decision of necessity, soon to be one of them, in some such street as this no doubt, forever and for the moment it choked and stifled her.”

By asking questions about humanity and human progress, naturalist fiction provided a means of deep inquiry into the meaning of human existence in a world that could be both hostile and crude.

The naturalist writer Theodore Dreiser twice ran for the mayorship of San Fancisco.

He was the youngest of fourteen siblings, the son of a Methodist minister, dropped out of college at nineteen, and wrote America’s first wholly naturalist novel.

As a literary period, American Realism espouses a _________________ theory of art.

This writer was known as “the Dean of American Letters.”