Naturalism Challenge 2/16/11

       What I primarily worked on for this first day of the challenge was determining a more concrete definition of Naturalism. I found a very good book on the subject entitled American Literary Naturalism: A Divided Stream by Charles Child Walcutt. I spent a good portion of the period going though this book, and what I got from it (as well as a few other sources that I looked at) was that Naturalism contains a large amount of science in it. The quote that I find most useful is as follows: "It [naturalism] reflects at once our faith in science and our doubts about the modern scientific world." I have to say I was a bit confused when I started delving into this idea. I was thinking that naturalism was more of a philosophical movement not scientific. Anyways, that is where I stand in my research so far.