现实主义 American Literature of Realism AmericanLiteratureofRealism 1865-1918 HistoricalBackground AftertheCivilWar,theU.S.headedtowardcapitalismIncreasingindustrializationandmechanizationofthecountryproducedextremesofwealthandpoverty.Thefrontierwasclosing.HistoricalBackground Are...
1、American Realism BackgroundoThree conflicts between: oEconomically: the agrarian ideal vs the industrial idealoPolitically: the plantation gentility of the South and the commercial gentility of the NorthoCulturally: the culturally mature East and the raw and expanding West.oThe Civil War (1861-...
4、Realism:(现实主义)appeared in the United States in the literature of local color, an amalgam of romantic plots and realistic descriptions of things was immediately observable. the dialects, customs, sights.现实主义有浓厚的美国本土特色,是浪漫主义故事情节和现实主义描写相结合的产物:美国风味的方言、...
1、a concise history of american literaturewhat is literature?literature is language artistically used to achieve identifiable literary qualities and to convey meaningful messages.chapter 1 colonial period i. background: puritanism1.features of puritanism(1)predestination: god decided everything before 2...
American Realism Late19thandEarly20thCenturyAmericanLiterature (1865—1910)By:Alice Outline 2 HistoricBackground AmericanRealism Naturalism Background•TheAmericanCivilWar•(1861–1865)•“TheindustrialNorthhaddefeatedtheagrarianSouth,andfromthatvictorycameasocietybasedonmasslaborandmassconsumption.”3 4 Back...
A.Realism Althoughstrictlyspeaking,realismisatechnique,it alsodenotesaparticularkindofsubjectmatter,especiallytherepresentationofmiddle-classlife.B.AmericanRealism InAmericanliterature,theterm"realism"encompassestheperiodoftimefromtheCivilWartotheturnofthecenturyduringwhichWilliamDeanHowells,RebeccaHardingDavis,HenryJames...
4 american-realism AmericanRealism(1865~1918)Contents HistoricalbackgroundDefinition,characteristics,principles,schoolsandrepresentativewriters ⅠHistoricalBackground 1)TheCivilWarwhichbrokeoutin1861taughtmenthatlifewasnotsogood,manwasnotandGodwasnot.Thewarmarkedachange,inthequalityofAmericanlife,adeterioration,infact...
Late19thandEarly20thCenturyAmericanLiterature(1865—1910)By:Alice2OutlineOutlineHistoricBackgroundAmericanRealismNaturalism3•TheAmericanCivilWar•(1861–1865)•“TheindustrialNorthhaddefeatedtheagrarianSouth,andfromthatvictorycameasocietybasedonmasslaborandmassconsumption.”BackgroundBackground4BackgroundBackground...
realismhowellsamericandeanhenryjames Unit6AmericanRealism:WilliamDeanHowells, HenryJamesandMarkTwain HistoricalBackground Twophases:thephaseofanexpanding continentalnationfrom1865till1890s;and theso-called“progressiveperiod”from1890s till1914. AmericanRealism:1865-1914 TheCivilWar:destroyedtheinnocence prevalentea...
American literature - Transcendentalism, Realism, Romanticism: The authors who began to come to prominence in the 1830s and were active until about the end of the Civil War—the humorists, the classic New Englanders, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and ot