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OUTLINE
Naturalism
Famous Authors
and Works
I.I.Realism
Realism
1.1.CIVIL
CIVILWAR
WAR
b. Common
subjects; slums of
rapidly growing
a. Feelings of cities, factories
disillusionment replacing
farmlands, poor
factory workers,
corrupt politicians
I.I.CIVIL
CIVILWAR
WAR More than 2.3 million soldiers
fought in the war, and perhaps
851,000 died in 1861–1865. Walt
Whitman declared that “a great
literature will… arose out of the
age of those four years,” and
what emerged in the decades
that followed was a literature
that presented a detailed and
unremarkable vision. embrace
the world as it really is. This is
the essence of realism.
Naturalism is an enhanced
form of realism. After the grim
realities of a brutal war, they
become the writer's main mode
of expression.
I.I.Realism
Realism
2.RECONSTRUCTION
2.RECONSTRUCTION