| Bitter Tastes: Literary Naturalism and Early Cinema in American Women''s Writing Subjects: American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Motion pictures and women -- United States; Naturalism in literature; Naturalism in motion pictures; Challenging the conventional understandings of literary naturalism defined primarily through its male writers, Donna M. Campbell examines the ways in which American women writers wrote naturalistic fiction and redefined its principles for their own purposes. Bitter Tastes looks at examples from Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, and others and positions their work within the naturalistic canon that arose near the turn of the twentieth century. DONNA M. CAMPBELL is a professor of English at Washington State University. |