Unit 8
REGIONAL REALISM
Depicting the Local in American Literature 1865–1900
Authors and Works
Featured in the Video: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (novel), “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses” (satire, literary criticism) Charles W. Chesnutt, “The Goophered Grapevine” and “The Wife of His Youth” (stories) Kate Chopin, The Awakening (novel), “At the ’Cadian Ball” and “The Storm” (stories) Discussed in This Unit: Bret Harte, “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” (story) Joel Chandler Harris, “The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story,” “Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox” (stories) Sarah Orne Jewett, “The White Heron,” “The Foreigner” (stories) Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, “A New England Nun,” “The Revolt of ‘Mother’ ” (stories) Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa), excerpts from From the Deep Woods to Civilization (autobiography) Alexander Posey, letters of Fus Fixico (stories, political satire), poems ˇ Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), “Impressions of an Indian Childhood,” “The School Days of an Indian Girl,” “An Indian Teacher among Indians” (autobiographical essays)
I What kinds of narrative conventions structure oral and visual autobiographies? I What regional and ethnic dialects were represented in late-nineteenth-century literature? Why were dialect stories so popular in late-nineteenthcentury America? I What are the distinguishing characteristics of realism? What cultural values does realism reflect and promote? I What is regionalist writing? What historical events and cultural anxieties fueled regionalism’s popularity in the late nineteenth century? I In the popular imagination of the late nineteenth century, what distinguished certain regions of the country from one another? I In what ways can regionalist texts be representative of the general “American” experience? I How did technology bind together the United States in the late nineteenth century? I What is dialect? How did different authors represent dialect? I How do narrators... [continues]
REGIONAL REALISM
Depicting the Local in American Literature 1865–1900
Authors and Works
Featured in the Video: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (novel), “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses” (satire, literary criticism) Charles W. Chesnutt, “The Goophered Grapevine” and “The Wife of His Youth” (stories) Kate Chopin, The Awakening (novel), “At the ’Cadian Ball” and “The Storm” (stories) Discussed in This Unit: Bret Harte, “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” (story) Joel Chandler Harris, “The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story,” “Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox” (stories) Sarah Orne Jewett, “The White Heron,” “The Foreigner” (stories) Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, “A New England Nun,” “The Revolt of ‘Mother’ ” (stories) Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa), excerpts from From the Deep Woods to Civilization (autobiography) Alexander Posey, letters of Fus Fixico (stories, political satire), poems ˇ Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), “Impressions of an Indian Childhood,” “The School Days of an Indian Girl,” “An Indian Teacher among Indians” (autobiographical essays)
I What kinds of narrative conventions structure oral and visual autobiographies? I What regional and ethnic dialects were represented in late-nineteenth-century literature? Why were dialect stories so popular in late-nineteenthcentury America? I What are the distinguishing characteristics of realism? What cultural values does realism reflect and promote? I What is regionalist writing? What historical events and cultural anxieties fueled regionalism’s popularity in the late nineteenth century? I In the popular imagination of the late nineteenth century, what distinguished certain regions of the country from one another? I In what ways can regionalist texts be representative of the general “American” experience? I How did technology bind together the United States in the late nineteenth century? I What is dialect? How did different authors represent dialect? I How do narrators... [continues]
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