White Fang | Historical Context
Naturalism
Jack London, along with Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Frank Norris, and others, is considered one of the premier writers of the naturalist style of American literature. Naturalism emerged in France in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and held sway in the United States between about 1900 and 1918, when World War I ended. It developed out of scientific ideas that were popular at the time, especially Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Naturalist writers were interested in the closely related idea of determinism, which holds that the fate of an...
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