![]() ![]() In my analysis, I will show how Johnson’s imagery resonates with both the drunkard narrative and seminal works of American naturalism, such Stephen Crane’s Maggie (1893) and Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie (1900), and how Clarence and Corinne exemplifies salient-though rarely examined-interconnections between temperance discourse and naturalist aesthetics. ![]() Just as many novels published in the Black Woman’s Era at the turn of the twentieth century, it parallels the tradition of white woman’s fiction as defined by Nina Baym and the sentimental tradition as discussed by Jane Tompkins. ![]() The article investigates the intersection of temperance discourse and emergent naturalist aesthetics in Amelia E. ![]()
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