What is it about?
This article looks at naturalism in Amy Levy's *The Romance of a Shop* focusing chiefly on the characters in the novel, their relationships, and their lofty ambitions. It delves into the female figures' quest for romance amidst reality as they try to rise above their circumstances while the tide of fate pulls them down.
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Why is it important?
American Naturalism is applied to a more obscure or understudied late-nineteenth-century British novel, Amy Levy's *The Romance of a Shop*.
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This page is a summary of: “‘[T]he world’s a beast, and I hate it!’”: Naturalism in Amy Levy’s The Romance of a Shop, Studies in American Naturalism, January 2020, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/san.2020.0010.
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