Realism, Regionalism, and Naturalism (1850-1913)

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Realism, Regionalism, and Naturalism(1850-1913)

• Colby McCollum
• Jennifer Baker

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Regionalism

• Regionalism the different types of writing in
  different areas.
• In the south many people started writing about
  how slavery was good and how they hated the
  slaves and abolitionists.
• A lot of this writing was one sided and
  considered ignorant and disregarded in the
  literary world.

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Regionalism (continued)

• Some of the more famous books that demonstrate
  regionalism are Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn written
  by Mark Twain.
• This picture depicts the widely knows scene of
  Tom Sawyer, where Tom tricks his friends into
  whitewashing the fence and get his friends to
  give him their possessions.

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Naturalism

• Naturalism is a type of writing that doubts the
  ability for man kind to make moral choices and
  standards.
• Authors wrote of characters that were totally
  controlled by their world and environment giving
  the theme that the world is what truly influences
  a persons decision.
• Also the idea of where a person will go in life
  is determined by his heredity and success of his
  business.
• Some naturalists believed that their life was out
  of their control and they were at the mercy of
  all powerful forces.

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Naturalism (continued)

• Usually derogatory to the human race, called
  people evil by heart.
• Naturalism was also used in war propaganda
  calling the enemy evil.

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Realism

• Showed life as it really was
• Used language of ordinary people
• Idea that success brought greed, materialism and
  corruption
• Books about slavery became popular in the north.

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Realism (continued)

• Realism like naturalism was used as propaganda in
  the civil war. The union told of the horrible
  things slave owners did to their slaves.

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Inventions

• During this time period many inventions were made
  that served as the base of todays technology
  such as the car.
• The first car was made by Henry Ford.

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Warfare

• The rifles were more accurate and powerful
  because they had grooves on the inside of the
  barrel to cause the bullet to spiral.
• Artillery also became more powerful and could
  shoot even farther.

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Clothes

• Clothes during the time period were relatively
  nice. Men wore suits and women wore big dresses
  that covered their body.

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Music

• Classical music
• European music was imported the US.

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Camera

• The original camera was created and became more
  widely used.
• Took a long time for the camera to flash and
  thats why no one smiled when they got their
  picture taken.

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Train

• Railroads changed America
• Increased the speed of transportation of people
  and goods.
• Helped bring supplies to the war front.

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Airplane

• Created in the early 1900s.
• The birth of air transportation and combat.

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Immigration

• After the civil war many people began moving to
  the US.
• Population sky rocketed.
• All these different cultures brought their
  traditions molding the US.

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Ambrose Bierce (1842- 1914?)

• Born in Ohio and raised on a farm in Indiana.
• He was raised in extreme poverty, which gave him
  a pessimistic view of the world.
• His writing was also shaped by his career as a
  Union officer in the Civil War.
• Legacy- Tales of Soldiers and Civilians(1891).
• Can such things be?(1893)

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Mark Twain (1835- 1910)

• Given name Samuel Langhorne Clemen
• A river boatmen named him Mark Twain-which
  means two fathoms deep
• He loved life on the river as a young man.
• Novels Tom Sawyer(1876) and Huckleberry Finn
  (1884)

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Jack London (1876- 1916)

• London grew up in San Francisco in extreme
  poverty
• He left school at age 11 and did odd jobs, but
  despite the long hours of work, London would read
  constantly.
• Books inspired him to travel and experience the
  world
• Best works- The Call of the Wild in 1903 and
  White Fang in 1906.

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Kate Chopin (1850- 1904)

• She had a conservative, aristocratic childhood
• She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter
  of a wealthy business woman.
• In 1882, her husband died and she had to raise 6
  children on her own.
• So, she returned to St. Louis with her children
  and started to write.
• Kate Chopin became one of the most controversial
  writers of our time.
• Most famous novel- The Awakening in 1899

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Types Of Literature

• Short stories fictional prose narrative that
  tends to be more concise and to the point than
  longer works of fiction
• Novels a long written, fictional, prose
  narrative
• Poetry a form of literary art in which language
  is used for its evocative qualities in addition
  to, its ostensible meaning. Poetry may be written
  independently, as discrete poems, or may occur in
  conjunction with other arts, as in poetic drama,
  or lyrics.