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    Realism can be difined in various ways, but William Dean Howell defines realism in the most simplistic, but very accurate, way. William Howell says realism is based off of one’s life situations and these life situations will determine what one will find as true. One critical text chosen from the ‘Realism and Naturalism Contextual Cluster’ would be Jack London’s “What Life Means to Me”. Jack London, who lived from 1876 to 1916, had a series of writings on this topic in the early 1900’s. With this

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    Realism and naturalism are both “basic” yet cynical views of life and humanity that arose during the trials and turmoil of the 19th century. Both views stripped away the layers of romanticism to present a “natural” or “real” viewpoint of the work. These forms of writing refuse to idealize or praise the subject while also avoiding artificial, fantasy, or mystical elements. In American literature, the term “realism” refers to writings that depict the realistic, everyday life of an average, middle-class

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    I Too By Langston Hughes

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    overcame. Through Editha, by William Dean Howells, The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, A New England Nun, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, and Trifles, by Susan Glaspell, women are are depicted through their emotions and the world around them. In Editha, William Dean Howells demonstrates how women were expected to keep their family on the right path and help lead their spiritual life. Editha provides different viewpoints on the Spanish American War, and Howells uses the character Editha to represent

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    Editha Criticism

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    Howells Use of Criticism and Fiction Within Editha To summarize Criticism and Fiction and Editha by William Dean Howells. His work Criticism and Fiction comprises some insight on how the author perceived past and current authors of his era. Howells observation identified that conventional novelist conform their thoughts and constructed their views from other novelist works; they do not show their own opinions. Editha is a typical illustration of heroic romance with the main characters Editha and

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    Bret Harte wanted the truth to be told, he asks society to see reality. In Harte’s article about the 1860 Massacre he describes graphically the slaughter of the Indian people. The people he wrote to despised his piece on the massacre because it told the bloody truth. They ran him out of town because even though they wanted this massacre to occur they did not want to be reminded about this unholy event. In Harte’s writing he conveys not everyone is as racist and discriminative as the people. Harte

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    The Rise Of Silas Lapham

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    happens while fighting. Mark Twain was not blind when it came to the realities of war in the United States. Mark Twain was not the only great Realist of his time. William Dean Howells, Henry James, and George Eliot were other successful Realist writers during the 19th Century. Howells was an early advocate of Realism. Howells wrote The Rise of Silas Lapham, which was about how a farm boy became a millionaire but all of it ended in a financial crash. George Eliot was another successful Realist writer

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    showed up covertly two years afterward in the New York Continental Monthly and his first book overviews in the North American Review. Exactly when William Dean Howells got the opportunity to be the article administrator of The Atlantic Monthly, James found in him a buddy and coach who disseminated him routinely. Between them, James and Howells presented the time of American "credibility." By his mid-20s, James was seen as a champion amongst the most delegated researchers of short stories in America

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    In his writing, he strongly discouraged the artificial sentimentality and romanticism elements in American fiction. The rise of Silas Lapham (1885) has been briefly considered Howells' finest work which displayed the economic depression but moral salvation of an honorable businessman in a Boston society controlled by clans that inherited positions of power (Jones 128). Distinctly, a hazard of new fortune, published in 1890, portrays

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    In the nineteenth century, America accomplished nationhood after a long prehistory of religious and political defiance that started with Puritanism and finished in revolution. In this time America was seeking after both post-frontier freedom and, under its own particular banner, provincial extension by victory, allotment and purchase. With the work of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper, American writing discovered its own particular subjects before it discovered its own structures; however

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    Jay Mclean's Discovery

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    Jay McLean had an unusual path leading to his discovery of heparin. His discovery of heparin was unintentional and accidental, as several major scientific discoveries sometimes are; yet, it does not surprise me that McLean would be the one to make such a significant discovery. McLean, from what I read in the short five-page personal account, was an extremely motivated individual, but more importantly, he was adaptable. McLean had a more modern upbringing, in my opinion, and this is exemplified by

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