" THE AMERICAN

REPUBLIC AND
CONTEMPORARY
PERIODS "
Prepared by :
Junabel Nacario
Abigail Sabalones
Florence Gerona
 OBJECTIVES :
1. DETERMINE THE CHARACTERISTIC OF
REGIONALISM AND REALISM.

2. DIFFEREBTIATE REGIONALISM AND REALISM.

3. SUMMARIZE AND APPRAISE THE NOVEL OF

" THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER".

4. KNOW THE AUTHORS OF REGIONALISM AND REALISM.

 ACTIVE
ACTIVE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
PRIOR
KNOWLED
GE
 REGIONALIS
M
CHARACTERISTIC
S
• Regionalism refers to a text that concentrate
heavily
on specific, uniquie features of a certain region.
• Includes dialect, costumes, tradition,
topography,
•history and characters.
It focuses on the formal and the informal, analyzing
the attitudes characters have towards one another
and
their community as a whole.
REGIONALISM
(1860-1930)

As a literary category, regionalism

originates in the post-Civil war era,
but manycritics locates its origins in
the antebellum period.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

REGIONALISM
(1860-1930)

In the late 19th century the term get used

interchangeably with "local color" to designate stories
set in relatively undeveloped areas.
-Coastal New England, the Soutj, the Midwest, and the
California
• Sarah Orne Jewett
• Hamlin Garland
• Charles Chesnutt
- they were perceived to be contibuting to
American Realism.
 AMERICA
N
REGIONALIS
MAUTHORS
WORKS
SARAH ORNE JEWETT
• New England Regionalist
best known for The Country
of the Pointed Firs (1896)
- A collection of related
stories of life in rural Maine
told through the perspective
of a summer visitor.
- The book offers a striking
portrait of a strong female
community.
CHARLES
CHESNUTT
• First African American
fiction writer to be
published in the
prestigious Atlantic
Monthly.
• Wrote regionalist
fiction about the South.
 KATE
CHOPIN
• Wrote regionalist fiction
often set in New Orleans or
Rural Luisiana.
• Most famous novel , The
Awakening (1899)
- reflects her interest in the
way women's sexual desires
came into conflict with social
expectations.
CULTURAL
INDEPENDENC
E
CULTURAL
INDEPENDENCE

• Prove to be the hardest area for

Americans to break free from European
models and standards.

• American intellectuals and artist

recognized the need for American
Culutural Independence.
CULTURAL
INDEPENDENCE
• In 1780s NOAH WEBSTER declared that "
America must be as independent in literature as
she is in politics".

• Spelling Book - WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY,

remains a mainstay of American bookshelves.

• American cultural innovation was both

original and thoughtful during the early republic
and early national periods.
WRITER'S WORK
WASHINGTON
IRVING WASHINGTON IRVING

The first American

writer to receive both
popular and lasting
acclaim.

• RIP VAN WINKLE

• HEADLESS HORSEMAN
JAMES FENIMORE
COOPER
WASHINGTON IRVING

- The most celebrated American

writer of the new nation.
- Five Books of about NATTY
BUMPPO
• The Pioneers (1823)
• The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
• The Prairie (1827)
• The Pathfinder (1840)
• The Deerslayer (1841
 REALISM
CHARACTERISTICS

• Renders reality closely and in comprehensive

detail.
• Character is more important than action and
plot , complex ethical choices are often the
subject.
• Characters appear in their real complexity of
temperament and motive.
 RIALISM
(1860-1890)
• In American Literature, the term "realism" encompasses
the period of time from the Civi War to the turn century.
• Broadly defined as "the faithful representation of reality
or "verisimilitude," realism is a literaru technique practiced
by
many schools of writing.
- William Dean Howells
- Rebecca Harding Davis
. - Henry James
. - Mark Twain, and others
. •wrote fiction devoted to accurate representation an
an exploration of an American lives in vatious context.
INDUSTRIALIZATION

INDUSTRIAL

REVOLUTIO
N
• Writers used literature as a mean
of
criticism.
• Literary Writers of this Era mostly
concerned about the social issues
which rise as the impact of
industrialization and urbanization.

• Industrial revolution has made a

thousands of people moved from
village to big cities to work in factories.

• Significant increase in literacy rates

and education.
 Writers
Industrial
Novels

• ELIZABETH GAZKELL - Mary

Bartoon
• ROBERT OWEN - A New
View of Society
• CHARLES DICKENS - Oliver
THE ADVENTURE OF
TOM SAWYER
 MARK TWAIN
(1835-1910 )
Fun Facts

• He was born in the town of Florida, Missouri

• Just like a cat, Mark Twain had nine lives
• Mark Twain dropped out of school
• Mark Twain love to self-educate
• He got a name Mark Twain from a steamboat
• Mark Twain worked as a miner too
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM
SAWYER