Am Timeline Flashcards
Realism historical context
Civil war;
People in society defined by class;
Reflect ideas of Darwin
Realism time period
1865-1915
Realism Genre/Style
Reaction against romanticism; focus on lives of ordinary people
Naturalism
Like Realism but a darker view of the world; the universe is unpredictable
Civil War authors
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Frederick Douglas
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Most famous woman of her day;
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Frederick Douglas
Escaped slave
Newspaper writer
Wrote autobiography
Frontier authors
Mark Twain
Stephen Crane
Jack London
Mark Twain
Wrote adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finb
Stephen Crane
Attacked patriotism
Jack London
Pushed Naturalism to its limits
Modernism Time Period
1915-1945
Modernism historical context
WWI and WWII
Modernism genre/style
Dominant moods
Writing highly experimental
Modernism writers
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Faulkner
John Steinbeck
Ernest Hemingway
Old man and the sea
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Gatsby
William Faulkner
As I lay dying
Most original writer of his time
John Steinbeck
The pearl
Drama writers
Tennessee Williams
Arthur miller
Tennessee Williams
GAY
Arthur miller
The crucible
Major theme: the American dream
20th century poets
Ezra Pound
Robert Frost
ee Cummings
Carl Sandburg
Ezra pound
Committed treason
Spent a decade in a mental hospital
Robert Frost
America’s best known an best loved poet
ee Cummings
Broke grammar rules
Carl Sandburg
One of the Chicago poets
The Harlem Renaissance
Black cultural movement that emerged in Harlem in the 20s
Langston Hughes: must successful black writer in America
