Naturalist Fiction: The Entropic Vision

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Histories 2. Theories: realism, naturalism, genre 3. The founding texts 4. The tragic model 5. Comic strains 6. In the ironic modes: naturalist satire and parody 7. The 'scandal' of naturalism 8. Naturalist description 9. The entropic vision 10. By way of conclusion: two English examples Notes Translations Select bibliography Index.