![]() ![]() Contraception, whose effects spawned numerous social movements at the end of the nineteenth century, allowed women to interact with their own bodies in new ways. It seeks to re-explore Naturalism's women through a trope that isn't there: contraception. It questions the critical reception of the genre, seeking, rather, to elevate woman as the text's central protagonist. project, in its conception, seeks to re-examine how the female body is used in the Naturalist texts McTeague and Sister Carrie. ![]() The women, themselves, become part of the fabric of realism that entraps mankind, rather than a part of mankind. However, these texts are unable to avoid impregnating their woman with meaning. Naturalism, a genre popularized by Frank Norris and Theodore Dreiser, seeks to explore realism-specifically how nature and society create the real within which humans exist-through an impartial lens. ![]()
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