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Realism, Regionalism, and Naturalism

Realism, Regionalism, and Naturalism. Realism Ordinary people doing things in ordinary places, a slice of life Moral dilemmas Dominant during the 1870’s - early 1900’s. Major Writers William Dean Howells Editor of The Atlantic Monthly The Rise of Silas Lapham Mark Twain Stephen Crane.

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Realism, Regionalism, and Naturalism

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  1. Realism, Regionalism, and Naturalism

  2. Realism • Ordinary people doing things in ordinary places, a slice of life • Moral dilemmas • Dominant during the 1870’s - early 1900’s

  3. Major Writers • William Dean Howells • Editor of The Atlantic Monthly • The Rise of Silas Lapham • Mark Twain • Stephen Crane

  4. Major Writers continued • Kate Chopin • The Awakening • Ambrose Bierce • “A Horseman in the Sky” and “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” • Henry James • Novels about American expatriates in Europe and concern with psychology of perception

  5. Major Writers continued • Henry James continued • “Daisy Miller,” The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove

  6. Regionalism • Local color • Attempts to capture the speech, geography, and customs of a specific region • Bret Hart, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin

  7. American painter Winslow Homer

  8. Naturalism • Darker side of realism • Focus on the seamy aspects of life • Treatment of human beings as animals driven by instinct and environment • Jack London (Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea Wolf) • Frank Norris, Upton Sinclair, Theodore Dreiser (Sister Carrie)

  9. Naturalism continued • Influences of Darwin, Marx, Nietzche, and (later) Freud • 1880’s - 1900’s

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