realism/huck finn Flashcards
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verisimilitude
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intending to recreate real world, having characters and plot be realistic
2
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The Literary Crimes of James Fenimore Cooper
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book by Mark Twain calling out Cooper for writing about American frontier and technicalities like shooting and geography without knowing anything about it
3
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agency
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characters have control over their own decisions
4
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realist moment of choice
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climax of many realist novels, character looking inside themself to make moral decision (moral choice)
5
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Mark Twain books
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- Adventures of Huck Finn
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Roughing It
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
- realism
6
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Roughing It
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- Mark Twain
- journey of Twain with his brothers across US
- racism towards Native Americans
7
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CT Yankee
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- Mark Twain
- time traveler industrializing medieval England, ruins country
8
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Henry James books
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- The Portrait of the Lady
- The Bostonians
- moral choice = marrying for love or money
- James came from a rich family and was scared of losing money, his books focused on this
- realism
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William Dean Howells books
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- The Rise of Silas Capham
- A Modern Instance
- wrote about how to properly do realism
- realism
10
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Huck Finn dates
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- written from 1876-1883
- published 1885 in US and 1884 in UK
- set before Civil War but metaphors are for reconstruction
11
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Compromise of 1877
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- Rutherford B Hayes removes Northern troops from South
- Jim Crow Laws and segregation
- minstrel shows
12
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minstrel mask
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black people during reconstruction went along with Jim Crow and played into stereotypes for safety
13
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Stephen Crane
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- wrote The Red Badge of Courage about soldier randomly charging or fleeing to/from battle without choice in his actions
- used steel factory experiences to write about war
- naturalism
14
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Frank Norris
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- The Octopus, metaphor for national connective economy where agriculture prices were decided by future exchange and farmers couldn’t decide when to sell/what prices
- McTeague
- naturalism
15
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Kate Chopin
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- The Awakening, set in NOLA, upper middle class woman wanted to be artist and left husband but nobody bought from her because she wasn’t following societal norm and she drowns in Gulf
- metaphor for there being no place in the world for her
- naturalism
16
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Theodore Dreiser
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- An American Tragedy (man kills pregnant woman and is executed)
- Sister Carrie (Carrie uses people to become Broadway star and man who accidentally stole money is forced to go on run, bad people win and good people lose)
