“…This can be partly explained by genre-specific emotional effects: a critical naturalist novel tends to shock and challenge its reader by representing and inciting strong negative emotions, which confirm the effect of the reality of a text and direct the reader's attention to the social defects described. For instance, the emotion of disgust, a genre-specific emotion of the naturalist novel, is a named emotion and salient in Sillanpää's and Canth's novels in particular [Rossi, 2007[Rossi, , 2017[Rossi, , 2020.…”