Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion

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Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion
Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion

• American Literature
• 1850 - 1914

American Literature 1850 - 1914
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America goes from an agricultural nation
to an industrial nation
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America goes through the CIVIL WAR
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THE FRONTIER DISAPPEARS
Railroads
mining
Cattle Ranching
All contributed to the shrinking 0f the frontier.
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By 1890, virtually all of the Native
Americans had been forced from their land
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Technology Explosion!
Electricity replaces Steam power.
The Telephone!
The Phonograph
The Automobile
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THE MOVIE PALACE
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The Skyscraper!
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Greater Extremes Between the Rich and the Poor.
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Naturalism/Realism
Focused on the changing culture.
Began shortly after the Civil War
Writers focused on real life
Depicted people in real life situations but
believed That greater forces like
FATE RULED AN INDIVIDUALS DESTINY
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TIMELINE

• 1850 1860
  1870
• 1855 Whitman publishes 1860 Abraham
  Lincoln 1876 Twain
• Leaves of Grass is
  elected president publishes The
• Adventures of
• Tom Sawyer
• 1859 Darwin introduces 1861 Civil War
  begins 1877 military
• theory of evolution
  occupation of
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  the south ends
• 1865 Lee Surrenders
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  to Grant

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TIMELINE

• 1880 1890
  1900
• 1884 Twain Publishes 1895 First
  professional 1905 Einstein
• The Adventures of football game played
  in proposes
• Huckleberry Finn Latrobe,
  Pa relativity theory
• 1886 Statue of Liberty 1895
  Stephen Crane 1908 Ford builds
• dedicated in New York publishes
  The Red Model T.
• Harbor
  Badge of Courage

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Ambrose Bierce
1842 1914?
Was a Union Officer in the Civil War
AFTER THE WAR
Worked as a Journalist in San Francisco
- Wrote political satire
- used the pseudonym
Jonathan Oldstyle
Was nicknamed The Wickedest Man in San
Francisco
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His observations about proper Europeans and
brash Americans are chronicled in Daisy Miller
HENRY JAMES 1843-1916
Considered to be the master of the Novel
and Novella forms.
Many of his stories and novels center around
Americas culture clash with Europe in the
late 1800s.
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CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN 1860 - 1935
What she accomplished in her lifetime was
considered exceptional for a woman.
Is considered a Feminist Utopian
Her short story, The Yellow Wallpaper is
Semi-autobiographical.
Was an activist for social reform
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Often employed dramatic irony and humor In her
writing.
EDITH WHARTON 1862 - 1937
Wrote about Americas Privileged Class
Was a good friend of Henry James
Like James, she also explored culture
differences between young Americans and
Europeans
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KATE CHOPIN 1850 - 1904
Most of her stories are set in a Louisiana Creole
background
Her novel, The Awakening (1899) was a banned book
in America for a period of time.
The novel was considered controversial because
it explored the issues of infidelity, divorce
and womens equality.