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What are the influences of Darwinism and French Naturalism on American literature in its Realistic Period?

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问题 What are the influences of Darwinism and French Naturalism on American literature in its Realistic Period?
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答案Give rise to American Naturalism; (l)Darwin’s theory of natural selection; used to account for the behavior of characters as being conditioned by social and economical forces. (2)Subjects—from lower ranks of society. (3) Theme—Human "bestiality". For example, Frank Norris,in his Mc Teague (1899) , described the relations of a crude dentist, who is compared to a draft-horse,a dog,a bear, with a superficially refined German-American girl who,awakened by his desires,is drawn into an animalistic affection for her "bear" husband.
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