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American Naturalism ranges in belief and stances.
It includes authors
such as Stephen Crane,
Henry James, Jack London,
William Dean
Howells, and Theodore Dreiser. Faulkner is also a prolific Naturalist
writer, who is known for his exploration of social structures built off of
slavery and societal changes. He also explored
hereditary influences
beyond an individual's control.
When Naturalism was growing in the United States, the country's
economic
backbone was built on slavery, and the country was in the
midst of the Civil War (1861-1865).
Many Slave Narratives were
written to show how slavery was destructive to human character. A
famous example is Frederick Douglass'
My Bondage and My
Freedom
(1855).
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