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The Effects Of The Civil War On American Realism

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INTRODUCTION 1. List the various ways that the American borders were being “pushed westward”: • The entire Southwest, including California, into the nation; and the discovery of gold in California in 1848 increased the pace of westward movement beyond anything that could have imagined even on year earlier. • White Americans, mostly of English, Scottish, and German settled across these regions which increased the pace of westward. • U.S Government was forcibly relocating Native Americans tribes, the term was removable and the practice had begun from their homelands to places further pushing westward. 2. What were the effects/changes made by such expansion? 3. List/discuss both positive and negative effects of the Civil War. Positive Effects …show more content…

What is the importance of realism to the American development of literature? What types of characters were created? What themes/ideas were explored and founded? etc. FORMS OF REALISM AND NATURALISM 12. What does the term “realism” refer to? Describe realism. The term “realism” refers to a movement in English, European, and American literature that grouped form from the 1830s to the end of the century. William Dean Howells, the magazine editor who was for some decades the chief American advocate of realist aesthetics once said, Realism “is nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material” (Howell 9). 13. What did the realism of writers such as Edith Wharton and Henry James focus on? Wharton and James emphases on the inner moral and psychological lives of upper-class people, although always taking care in telling these people’s settings (Baym 9). 14. What is meant by the term “naturalism”? Describe the use of “naturalism” in literature. “Naturalism” can be thought of as a form of realism, or as an alternate to it. In literature “Naturalism”, unlike the realists for whom human beings distinct themselves within familiar settings, wrote about human life as it was formed by forces beyond human control (Baym …show more content…

What was the significance of women writers during this era of literature? What did their female characters “suggest” about human beings (particularly women)? 20. What was so special about Kate Chopin’s writings? What types of things/characters did she write about? Chopin was absorbed in the customs, languages, and sceneries of the northern Louisiana countryside and, downriver, New Orleans. She wrote about searching psychological fiction with captivating female protagonists. Also, in her narratives she remembers (possibly romanticizes) the relaxed and sumptuous way of life of the local residents. 21. Why were the writings of Native Americans during this time important? They defined their lives and traditions especially as these were endangered by white advances into their grounds. The discussion of Charlot and Smohalla, the Ghost Dance religion, and the writings of Zitkala Sa, Sarah Winnemucca, and Charles Alexander Eastman all expanded public gratitude of legendary models outside the European ritual while also stimulating the dominant culture’s documentation of the West with the imaginary line of the

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