Naturalism

Naturalism was a mainly unorganized literary movement that sought to depict believable everyday reality, as opposed to such movements as Romanticism or Surrealism, in which subjects may receive highly symbolic, idealistic or even supernatural treatment.

Naturalism was an outgrowth of literary realism, a prominent literary movement in mid-19th-century France and elsewhere. Naturalistic writers were influenced by Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. They often believed that one's heredity and social environment largely determine one's character. Whereas realism seeks only to describe subjects as
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Thérèse Raquin
Nana
Germinal
Sister Carrie
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (Signet Classics)
The Call of the Wild
Of Mice and Men
The Jungle
The Age of Innocence
La Bête humaine
The Belly of Paris (Les Rougon-Macquart, #3)
The House of Mirth
L'Assommoir
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Walden
Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects by Norman F. JohnsonThe Life-Story of Insects by George H. CarpenterInsects and their Plants by Fr. James M. SullivanThe Wonders of Instinct by Jean-Henri FabreSocial Life in the Insect World by Jean-Henri Fabre
Notable Books in Entomology
6 books — 4 voters
Una temporada en Tinker Creek by Annie DillardWalden by Henry David ThoreauCoñodramas by Moderna de PuebloH de Halcón by Helen MacdonaldLa invención de la naturaleza by Andrea Wulf
Literatura naturalista
18 books — 3 voters

Enlightenment Now by Steven PinkerThe Birth of Plenty  by William J. BernsteinThe Moral Arc by Michael ShermerThe Rational Optimist by Matt RidleyThe Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
Polemics for Progress
14 books — 6 voters
Bauhaus by Jeannine FiedlerThe Indiscipline of Painting /anglais by CLARCK MARTINFinding Vincent by Les FurnanzWild by Graham BoyntonAction Painting by Robert Fleck
Art -‘isms’ of the 20th Century
102 books — 4 voters

Darwin's Black Box by Michael J. BeheSignature in the Cell by Stephen C. MeyerDarwin's Doubt by Stephen C. MeyerIcons of Evolution by Jonathan WellsThe Design of Life by William A. Dembski
Best Books against Darwinism
197 books — 62 voters
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererThe Sacred Depths of Nature by Ursula GoodenoughTao Te Ching by Lao TzuEarth Prayers by Elizabeth RobertsRestoring the Soul of the World by David Fideler
Spiritual Naturalism
118 books — 17 voters

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.
Anaxagoras

Robert J. Sawyer
There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard? ...more
Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

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