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Ameri can Realism

Ameri can Realism. 1850-1900. By: Krista Parker, Tyler Connell, and Adamli Haber. Authors. 1850-1859. They concentrated on select groups such as: factory workers, black life, marriage, and women's rules.

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Ameri can Realism

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  1. American Realism 1850-1900 By: Krista Parker, Tyler Connell, and Adamli Haber

  2. Authors 1850-1859 • They concentrated on select groups such as: factory workers, black life, marriage, and women's rules. • Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes an influential novel about slavery Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Gustave Flaubert

  3. 1850-1859 Cultural / Historical Events • Fugitive Slave Act imposes stiff penalties on anyone helping a person escape enslavement. • Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton become co-leaders of U.S women’s rights movement.

  4. 1860-1869 Literary Events • Bret Harte publishes the short story “The Outcast of Poker Flat.” • Louisa Maye Alcott publishes Little Women a popular novel about growing up.

  5. 1860-1869Cultural / Historical Events • First shots of Civil War fired, April 1861. • President Lincoln is assassinated in Ford’s Theater, Washington, D.C., April 14,1865 • Confederates surrender at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. It ends the Civil War, April 1865

  6. 1870-1879Literary Events • Henry James publishes the novel Daisy Miller, a study of European and American manners. • Mark Twain publishes the popular novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. • In 1876, Mark Twain begins to work on the sequel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

  7. 1870-1879Cultural / Historical Events • In 1876, Sioux soldiers defeat the U.S forces. • In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell patents the first telephone.

  8. 1880-1889 Literary Events • In 1885, William Dean Howells publishes the realistic novel The Rise of Silas Lapham. • In 1882, Cuban writer and independence leader, Jose Marti publishes his poetry collection Ismaelillo. William Dean Howells

  9. Walt Whitman • In his poems he presented a panoramic vision of America. • He had an optimistic view of “the actual soldier” of 1862-65. He viewed them in all their ways, their incredible dauntlessness, habits, practices, tastes, language, his fierce friendship, appetite, rankness, his superb strength, and a hundred unnamed lights and shades.

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