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Regionalism & Naturalism 1880-1910 - Coggle Diagram
Regionalism & Naturalism 1880-1910
America population growth and their cities expand
New York's population quadrupled
Chicago population multiplied
Philadelphia's population tripled
United Stated became a wealthy industrial nation
In 1980, there were four thousand American millionaries and there wealth was about million of dollars or exceeded
Wealth grow but poverty became more noticeable
Poverty became visible
The war had devised the nation. Americans were suffering of economic collapse
Was the Gilded Age
Time in were the wealth of the corporation and industrials monopolies grow in a big amount
American Millionaires
J.P Morgan, was a great financier
John D Rockefeller was founder of the Standard Oil Company
Andrew Carnegie, fortune made in steel and iron
Realism
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Its was a literature movement against the Romanticism
It provided an way out for the democratic sympathies of the writers
Authors avoided responsibilities of such a Romantic tales
Middle and lower classes were the main subjects
Realism find drama and tension in the ordinary surface of life
Realism Writers
Were more objective tan subjective
Were more descriptive than symbolic
Their mision was to go to heart of human experience
The source of inspiration was the daily event that happens around them
Regional Writers
Set their literature in the regions and areas they knew best
Realism object was looked for the truth in everyday truth
Regionalism
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Was the result of Americans demand to know how other people live in other parts of the Nation
In Regional literature, Americans found more than a travel guide
Regional Fiction capture the special atmosphere of the area and people that were described
Regionalism literature
Had a realistic use of dialect
Gave accurate descriptions of the characters' lives, the environment and the nature that surrounded them
Regionalism emphasized in the lives of ordinary people
Literature during the time of wealth grow
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The new conditions of America life let behind the literature before 1900
America Literature turn from Romanticism and Transcendentalism unto a plain portrayal of human nature and society
The major literature movement were
Realism
Naturalism
Regionalism
Frank Norris with
The Octopus
make a criticism to the political corruption
Naturalism
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Environment plaid an important role
Its an extension of Realism
Naturalism response to the theories in science, psychology, human behavior that surrounded the 1900
Naturalis describes the world with a vicious realism
Naturalism Writting
The style was made in detail observation of the truth
Uses facts only
TIMELINE
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1891
James A. Smith invents game of basketball
1893
Colorado first state to grant woman right to vote
1887
England: Arthur Conan Dople
A Study in Scarlet
first Sherlock Holmes Novel
1894
England: Rudyard Kipling,
The Jungle Book
1884
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1895
England: Oscar Wilde ,
The Importance of Being Earnest
1883
Thomas Edison discovers that electric currents can be sent through space
1897
Klondlike Gold Rush begins
1880
Andrew Carniege Begins establishing libraries
1900
L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of OZ
Authors
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Naturalism
Jack London,
To Build a Fires
Hamlin Garland,
Under the Lion's Paws
Realism
Frank Norris,
The Octopus
Stephen Crane's novel
The Red Badge of Courage
Regionalism
Hamlin Garland,
Local Color in Art