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Realism historical context

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Civil war;
People in society defined by class;
Reflect ideas of Darwin

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Realism time period

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1865-1915

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Realism Genre/Style

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Reaction against romanticism; focus on lives of ordinary people

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Naturalism

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Like Realism but a darker view of the world; the universe is unpredictable

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Civil War authors

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Frederick Douglas

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Most famous woman of her day;

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Frederick Douglas

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Escaped slave
Newspaper writer
Wrote autobiography

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Frontier authors

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Mark Twain
Stephen Crane
Jack London

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Mark Twain

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Wrote adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finb

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Stephen Crane

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Attacked patriotism

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Jack London

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Pushed Naturalism to its limits

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Modernism Time Period

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1915-1945

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Modernism historical context

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WWI and WWII

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Modernism genre/style

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Dominant moods

Writing highly experimental

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Modernism writers

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Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Faulkner
John Steinbeck

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Ernest Hemingway

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Old man and the sea

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Great Gatsby

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William Faulkner

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As I lay dying

Most original writer of his time

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John Steinbeck

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The pearl

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Drama writers

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Tennessee Williams

Arthur miller

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Tennessee Williams

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GAY

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Arthur miller

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The crucible

Major theme: the American dream

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20th century poets

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Ezra Pound
Robert Frost
ee Cummings
Carl Sandburg

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Ezra pound

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Committed treason

Spent a decade in a mental hospital

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Robert Frost

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America’s best known an best loved poet

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ee Cummings

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Broke grammar rules

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Carl Sandburg

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One of the Chicago poets

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The Harlem Renaissance

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Black cultural movement that emerged in Harlem in the 20s

Langston Hughes: must successful black writer in America

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