His work particularly focused on the lower social strata, whereas Zola claims, "the state of the social environment and its heredity are particularly visible" (Innes, Naturalism, 2006). Naturalist movement is informed by 19th century science particularly by Darwin's biological theories (On the Origin of Species, 1859); Bernard's scientific observations of human psychology; and Taine's deterministic theories of history (Ekambaram, 2012). ...

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Social: The growing wealth of the wealthy advanced the style of living in the middle and upper classes to a point where the Victorian had to struggle for things his father had been able to ignore. ... Many of the middle class, now that they had political standing and social opportunities, were eager to acquire the education, or at least the veneer of culture, which they lacked. ... Political, social and economic power was no longer held solely by the upper classes. ... As social dissolution occurred, the centre of life became the individual, and it is only through dissolution that the in...

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The new diplomacy mirrored the far-reaching changes that were reshaping industry, agriculture, and the social structure. ... At the same time, aggressive Americans like Theodore Roosevelt and congressman Henry Cabot Lodge were interpreting Darwinism to mean that the earth belonged to the strong and the fit, and that is, to Uncle Sam. ...

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