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;Naturalism;Naturalism;Naturalism;现实主义和自然主义文学运动中成就最大的是德莱塞(Theodore Dreiser,1871-1945)。他出身贫苦,自幼过着颠沛流离的艰难生活,饱尝失业和贫穷的痛苦,对下层人民有深刻的了解和深厚的同情。 其作品《嘉莉妹妹》(Sister Carrie)由于描写乡村姑娘为生活所迫而沦落但最后成为名演员的故事被指责为伤风败俗,曾一度遭到禁止。然而,德莱塞并未退却,又以同样的主题写了《珍妮姑娘》(Jennie Gerhardt)。 代表作《美国的悲剧》(An American Tragedy)被评论界称颂为“美国最伟大的小说”,以感人的故事深刻阐明主人公克莱德是美国社会制度的受害者,他的堕落应由社会负责。;3. Muckraking:;Muckraking novels used eye-catching journalistic techniques to depict harsh working conditions and oppressions. Norris’s Octopus (1901) exposed big railroad companies while Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906) painted the squalor of the Chicago meat-packing大规模的肉类工业 houses, and Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio小镇畸人 , emphasizes the quiet poverty, loneliness, and despair in small-town America. The muckraking movement lost support in about 1912. Historians agree that if it had not been for the revelations of the muckrakers the Progressive movement进步运动 would not have received the popular support needed for effective reform. ;Theodore Dreiser(1871-1945);;After briefly attending Indiana University, he found work as a reporter on the Chicago Globe. Later he worked for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the St. Louis Republic and Pittsburgh Dispatch, before moving to New York where he attempted to establish himself as a novelist. ; ;The young author felt so depressed by “a decade’s delay”—in the words of Larzer Ziff—in social recognition that he was said to have walked by the East River at the turn of the century, seriously contemplating suicide. ;Dreiser was left-oriented in his views. Dreiser continued to work as a journalist and as well as writing for mainstream newspapers such as the Saturday Evening Post, also had work published in socialist magazines such as The Call. However, unlike many of his literary friends such as Sinclair Lewis, and Jack London, he never joined the Socialist Party. ;;;;;In 1898 Dreiser married Sara White, a Missouri schoolteacher, but the marriage was unhappy. Dreiser separated permanently from her