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Regionalism is where it characterizes a geographical place and the people living in the area. It focuses on the culture of the people of that certain region.

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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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Because Regionalism describes more about the characteristics of different regions of the world, Realism shows that people will have to accept the way things are. For example, when the Civil War ended, there were people who had to accept the abolition of slavery in the South.

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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 to establish the cultural ways of a person living in a specific region. Regionalist writers wanted to capture the speech, their dress, common beliefs, and social interactions with different people.

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Naturalism takes a deeper look into Realism. It is where Naturalism looks closely at human behavior and how it determined the nature forces beyond human control.

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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 have the same concept of accepting the way things are, but it focuses more on nature or the universe.

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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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The main focus of Naturalist writers was to show how nature forces could determine the behavior of a human.

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Romanticism and Realism uses nature as their focus for their writings.

Romanticism and Realism occurred around the 18th century.

They focus on how they thought of life, which they use art and literature.

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What specific time period was Realism popular?

Realism rose to popularity in 1857, with the first major work by Gustave Flaubert. Realism expanded from the mid 1800's, to early 1900's.

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Romanticism focuses on imagination, emotions, and individualism. However, Realism focuses on details, characters, and reality.

The writings of Romanticism is mainly fictional, while the writings of Realism is mainly nonfictional.

The Romantics saw life better than reality, however the Realists accepted how life is. Even if life is good or bad, Realists still accept it the way it is.

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

The Industrial Revolution was a shift of productivity to the use of machines and innovative energy sources, moving away from artisan made goods. This influenced Realism because it made it easier to depict horrific events that were based on the lives of those industrial workers.

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Christenbury, Leila. "Regionalism" Elements of Literature, edited by Kylene Beers, Carol

Jago, Deborah Appleman, Leila Christenbury, Sara Kajder, Linda Rief, Holt, 2009, pp. 619.

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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.
Notable authors from this time period are Champfleury, Gustave Flaubert, and the Goncourt brothers, Jules and Edmond Goncourt. Gustave Flaubert is credited with making Realism mainstream with his literary work, Madame Bovary, which talks about a woman committing acts of adultery and trying to find meaning in her troubled life. This greatly represented the setting in that present time and shocked the readers with such a harsh, cruel, yet realistic depiction of life.

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Christenbury, Leila. "Realism and Naturalism" Elements of Literature, edited by Kylene Beers, Carol

Jago, Deborah Appleman, Leila Christenbury, Sara Kajder, Linda Rief, Holt, 2009, pp. 681.

LiteraryDevice Editors. "Naturalism" Literary Devices, Literary Devices, 01 October 2017, https://literarydevices.net/naturalism/

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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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Writers shifted their beliefs from Romanticism, to Realism after the events witnessed and spread by the Civil War.

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"What is the Difference Between Romanticism and Realism" Reference, Ask Media Group, LLC, https://www.reference.com/world-view/difference-between-romanticism-realism-e44597b47d8c82f3

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Cregan-Reid, Vybarr. “Madame Bovary.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 12 Nov. 2018, www.britannica.com/topic/Madame-Bovary-novel.

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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 sought to better the government on their corruption and make them more responsive towards the people, also aiming to better businesses by demanding ethical practices. This impacted literature because writers, known as muckrakers, began to expose awful business and political practices in hopes to push for action.

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"The Age of Realism" Elements of Literature, edited by Kylene Beers, Carol

Jago, Deborah Appleman, Leila Christenbury, Sara Kajder, Linda Rief, Holt, 2009, pp. 608.

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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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Observational - closely followed the lives of those in the middle and lower classes
Unembellished - would not exaggerate the lives of people with idealization
Detached - focused on the lives of those who were not too fortunate, and would avoid idealized ideas

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“Realism (Late 1800s-Early 1900s).” Realism (Late 1800s-Early 1900s) | Scholastic ART | Scholastic.com, www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3753924.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Realism.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 10 Mar. 2017, www.britannica.com/art/realism-art.