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Realism was popular in the late 1800's.
Detail, transparent language, and an omniscient narrator are some characteristics of Realistic authors.

Schuster, Marc. "Get Real: An

Introduction to Realism in American Literature." YouTube, Feb 26, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watchv=eTCjHZWmgG0&feature=youtu.be

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The Industrial Revolution was a time where there were abundant resources and an endless supply of workers. Realist writers sought to depict ordinary life and people accurately.

The Civil War disillusioned writers and turned them from Romanticism to realism.

The Progressive Era represented efforts to make government more responsive and businesses more ethical. Writers were influenced to view social problems as the result of biological forces that control human fate.

Beers, Kylene. “The Age of Realism.” Elements of Literature, edited by Kylene Beers, Carol Jago,

Deborah Applman, Leila Christenbury, Sara Kajder, Linda Reif, Holt, 2009, pp. 608.

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Theodore Dreiser, Frank Norris, and Upton Sinclair are examples of realist authors.

Upton Sinclair's novel, The Jungle, drew attention to unsafe, unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry.

Beers, Kylene. “Time Line.” Elements of Literature, edited by Kylene Beers, Carol Jago,

Deborah Applman, Leila Christenbury, Sara Kajder, Linda Reif, Holt, 2009, pp. 606-607.

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Regionalism is the desire to record, celebrate, and mythologize the vast diversity of America's different geographical regions.

Realism was a literary movement whose authors described life as they saw it, instead of how they imagined or wanted it to be. Another literary movement, Regionalism, was related to Realism.

Regionalist writers focused on embracing not the universal but the particular, focusing on what specifically characterizes a geographical area and it s people.

Christenbury, Leila. “Regionalism.” Elements of Literature, edited by Kylene Beers, Carol Jago,

Deborah Applman, Leila Christenbury, Sara Kajder, Linda Reif, Holt, 2009, pp. 619.

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Naturalism seeks to present human behavior objectively, as a scientist world.

Naturalism is based on realism but explores the human behavior.

The main focus of naturalist writers was moving beyond realism in their quest to dissect human behavior and show human beings as subject to natural forces beyond their control

Christenbury, Leila. “Realism and Naturalism.” Elements of Literature, edited by Kylene Beers, Carol Jago,

Deborah Applman, Leila Christenbury, Sara Kajder, Linda Reif, Holt, 2009, pp. 681.

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Similarities

Authors uses this to categories there books

They were both used in some point in U.S history

We study both of these in our 10th grade of high school

Differences

Realism focused more on reality

Romanticism is mostly based off emotions

Realism took place in the late 1800s