naturalism

Stephen Crane-representative of American naturalism

Maggie：a girl of the street

Frank Norris（1870-1902）

trilogy：mateague， the octopus

naturalism is a literature school that originated in France and came to American literature in the late of 19th century.The naturalistic writers attempted to achieve extreme objectivity and frankness presenting  characters of low  social and economic classes who are dominated by the environment and heredity.