During his lifetime, and throughout the half century of neglect that followed his early death, Harold Frederic was classified variously as a regionalist, a realist, a naturalist, and a pioneer in the revival of American historical fiction. Though...

Perhaps the leading foreign correspondent of his time, surely the most published, Harold Frederic provided readers of the New York Times with an increasingly sophisticated understanding of the intricacies of European political, social, scientific, and...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's debt to the fin de siecle American naturalists is well known. Princetonian Amory Blaine gives the most famous suggestion of the influence in This Side of Paradise when he finds himself "rather surprised by his discovery through a critic named...

Author Harold Frederic's 'The Damnation of Theron Ware' is particularly interesting because of its ability to attract reader participation in its investigations of authority figures and the results of a culture's lack of clearly delineated, valid sources of authority. How Frederic manipulates the text...