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Title: American Realism


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American Realism
  • 1865-1915

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  • Rapid expansion in population, settlement of the
    West, transportation, communication and curiosity
    about people living in other regions, especially
    in the Midwest and the Far West

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  • Rise of industrialism-Twains Gilded Age

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  • Writers turned away from Romanticism and strove
    to portray life as it was actually lived

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  • Realism slice of life a movement which sought
    to depict real life as faithfully and accurately
    as possible and focused on the lives of ordinary
    people

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  • Naturalism a movement that went one step further
    by showing life as the inexorable working out of
    natural forces beyond our power to control

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  • Regionalism literature that emphasizes a
    specific geographic setting and that makes use of
    the speech and manners of the people who live
    there (also called local color writing)
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