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Regional literature is fiction and poetry that focuses on the characters, dialect, customs, topography, and other features particular to a specific region.

Influenced by Southwestern and Down East humor (between the Civil War and the end of the 19th century).

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What specific time period was Realism popular?

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What specific time period was Realism popular?

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Realism was popular around the 1850s after the 1848 revolution.

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Identify a minimum of 3 traits or characteristics of Realistic authors and/or their writing. 

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Identify a minimum of 3 traits or characteristics of Realistic authors and/or their writing. 

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- Realist works depicted people of all classes in ordinary life situations, which often reflected the changes brought on by the Industrial Revolution.
-  depict everyday subjects and situations in present time settings, and attempted to portray individuals of all social classes
- realism emphasized the lifestyle of the working class and treated working class people

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What was the Industrial Revolution and how did it impact or influence Realism?

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What was the Industrial Revolution and how did it impact or influence Realism?

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The Industrial Revolution: later half of the 18th century that transformed largely rural, agricultural societies in Europe and America into industrialized, urban ones.
With a change in the modern world during the industrial revolution, artists believed their work should be about their modern day environment.

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How did the Civil War also impact or influence this literary time period?

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How did the Civil War also impact or influence this literary time period?

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After the Civil War, as America rapidly grew, it provided a fertile literary environment for readers interested in understanding these rapid shifts in culture.

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What was the Progressive Era and what was its impact on the literature during this time?

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What was the Progressive Era and what was its impact on the literature during this time?

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The Progressive Era:  an era of intense social and political reform aimed at making progress toward a better society.
America was going though a lot of changes and as the way of life changed so did the art.

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Identify a minimum of 3 authors from this time period and identify one of their literary works and explain why it was important. 

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Identify a minimum of 3 authors from this time period and identify one of their literary works and explain why it was important. 

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What does Regionalism have to do with Realism? 

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What does Regionalism have to do with Realism? 

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Regionalism embraces not only the universal but the particular, focusing on what specifically characterizes a geographical area and its people.

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Boundless. “Boundless Art History.” Lumen, https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-arthistory/chapter/realism/.

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“Realism, Romanticism, and Politics in Mark Twain.” The Center for the Study of Statesmanship, 4 Jan. 2018, https://css.cua.edu/humanitas_journal/realism-romanticism-politics/.

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History.com Editors. “Industrial Revolution.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 29 Oct. 2009, https://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution/industrial-revolution.

“Realism during the Industrial Revolution.” Google Sites, https://sites.google.com/site/realismduringthe19c/.

Campbell, Donna M. Realism in American Literature, public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/realism.htm.

“The Progressive Era.” Khan Academy, Khan Academy, www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/rise-to-world-power/age-of-empire/a/the-progressive-era.

ART, www.clevelandhs.org/ourpages/webdesign4/ramos/ART.htm.

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William Dean Howells:
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “William Dean Howells.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 7 May 2019, www.britannica.com/biography/William-Dean-Howells.

Mark Twain:
“Mark Twain's Influence on Realism.” UKEssays.com, www.ukessays.com/essays/english-literature/mark-twains-influence-on-realism.php.
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History.com Editors. “Mark Twain.” History.com, A&amp;E Television Networks, 5 Apr. 2010, www.history.com/topics/art-history/mark-twain.

Henry James:
Edel, Leon. “Henry James.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 5 Sept. 2019, www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-James-American-writer.

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https://www.sutori.com/story/regionalism-american-literature--Z9brsEKwZoqt2HADrgy2M82t

http://schools.misd.org/upload/page/0622/Regionalism%20Power%20point.pdf

https://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/lcolor.html

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https://study.com/academy/lesson/realism-vs-naturalism-in-literature.html

https://literarydevices.net/naturalism/

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A Chance Acquaintance (1873) was one of his first realistic novels of uneventful middle-class life.

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What was the main focus of Regionalist writers?

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What was the main focus of Regionalist writers?

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The main focus of Regionalist writers was on the characters, dialect, customs, topography, and other features specific to a region.

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Naturalism is a literary movement beginning in the late nineteenth century, similar to literary realism in its rejection of Romanticism, but distinct in its embrace of determinism, detachment, scientific objectivism, and social commentary.

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What does Naturalism have to do with Realism?

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What does Naturalism have to do with Realism?

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Naturalism focused on determinism, or the inability of human beings to resist the biological, social, and economic forces that dictated their behavior and their fate.

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What was the main focus of Naturalist writers?

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What was the main focus of Naturalist writers?

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Naturalistic writers write stories based on the idea that environment determines and governs human character.

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The main contributor during the period of realism was Mark Twain with his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain incorporated his own real life experiences to his novels. He also expresses many beliefs within society of the time period.

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-     Both were popular in the 1800s-
1850s
-     Realism was an artistic
movement that emerged
simultaneously with
Romanticism
-     Both Romanticism and Realism
were reactions to social
conditions produced by the
Industrial Revolution in France
that began in the late
eighteenth century.

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-     Realism uses facts to depict
ordinary everyday experiences
-     Romanticism grew out of a
reaction to widespread
rationalism which dominated
America and bounded the
thought life of America.
-     Realism grew out of the
massive social changes taking
place all over America

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His theme was the innocence and joy of the New World in clash with the corruption of the Old, as illustrated in such works as Daisy Miller (1879).