Realism, Regionalism, and Naturalism

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

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

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• 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

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• Major Writers continued
• Henry James continued
• Daisy Miller, The Ambassadors, The Wings of
  the Dove

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

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American painter Winslow Homer
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• 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)

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

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