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Realists

Published on Nov 22, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

REALISTS 1850-1900

TYSON P, VANESSA C, JORDAN M, P.2
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CHARACTERISTICS

  • Most of the literature was about conflict like.....
  • Women's Rights
  • Peace
  • Slavery/Racism
  • President Lincoln
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THE CIVIL WAR INFLUENCED LITERATURE NEGATIVELY

  • Soldiers were dying
  • People were dirty and they were panic struck
  • They felt like prisoners
  • People thought there was no hope
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AUTHORS

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin - 1851-1852
  • France's Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bavary - 1856
  • Herman Melville, The Piazza Tales- 1856
  • Bret Harte, " The Outcasts of Poker Flat" - 1869
  • Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - 1876
Photo by Marion Doss

MORE AUTHORS

  • Stephen Crane publishes The Red Badge of courage,about a soldiers reponse so the Civil War 1895
  • Kate Chopin publishes Bayou Folk, short stories about life in louisiana 1894
  • William Dean Howells publishes the realistic novel The Rise Of Silas Lapham,1885

Uncle Tom's Cabin
:Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Encouraging Northerners to disobey the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, Harriet Beecher Stowe began writing her vivid sketches of slave sufferings