Categories: All - civil war - realism - industrialization

by Anthony Henson 14 years ago

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American Realism

American Realism emerged as a literary movement that focused on depicting everyday life with an emphasis on accuracy and authenticity. It often avoided the use of an omniscient narrator and favored a more impersonal diction, reflecting the experiences and language of the growing middle class.

American Realism

American Realism

Themes

hardly uses an omniscient narrator
realistic, unpersonal diction
written for the growing middle class
emphasis on verisimilitude

Authors

Stephan Crane

The Open Boat

Red Badge of Courage

war correspondent
eastern writer
Ambrose Bierce

An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge

wrote nonfiction essays and war literature
colonel in union army
Mark Twain
Books

Tom Sawyer

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

sorrows in life produce humor
first to use colloquialism
father of American novel

Causes

rejection of romantisism
western frontier had been conquered
civil war opened eyes to true cruelty
wanted to record everyday humans to capture the essence standardization was destroying
changes to the landscape caused by the industrial revolution
fast immagration to crowded cities by Europeans