Excavatio, Vol. XXIV, 2014

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Naturalism and Neo-Naturalism in the United States, the South, and Louisiana

1. Bitter Tastes: Recognizing American Women’s Naturalism

   Donna M. CAMPBELL
   Washington State University

2. Transgressive Femininity in Emilia Pardo Bazán and Kate Chopin: Destabilizing Spanish and Southern Exceptionality Via a Naturalist Aesthetic

   Brittany Powell KENNEDY
   Tulane University

3. Naturalism, Social Dance and the Evolution of Identity in Chopin and Cather

   Elizabeth MILLER LEWIS
   University of New Orleans

4. Naturalism and the Florida Setting in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

   Andrea PANZECA
   University of New Orleans

5. “Vivre dans la vérité”: La lutte pour la vérité subjective dans deux romans d’Alfred Mercier

   Guri Ellen BARSTAD
   Østfold University College

6. Natural Disaster: Representation, Spectatorship, and Loss in the Flood Stories L’Inondation, Trouble the Water, and Low and Behold

   Juliana STARR
   New Orleans University

7. Louisiana-Style Naturalism? Science, Fiction, and Commerce in Duck Dynasty and Swamp People

   Elizabeth EMERY
   Montclair State University

8. Naturalism and Reality in Treme

   Ronald GEERTS
   Vrije Universiteit Brussel

9. The Reception of the Dreyfus Affair in Louisiana

   Mark D. KUSS
   Our Lady of the Holy Cross College

10. The Roles of William Dean Howells and Samuel S. McClure in Zola’s Reception in the USA

    Robert S. APRIL
    The Mount Sinai School of Medicine

11. De l’Ambigu à l’Olympic Theatre: la représentation de L’Assommoir à New York en 1879

    Geneviève DE VIVEIROS
    University of Western Ontario