美国现实主义.merican Realism.ppt

AmericanRealism(1860-1914):(1884):HistoricalBackground“TheindustrialNorthhadtriumphedovertheagrarianSouth,andfromthatvictorycameasocietybasedonmasslaborandmassconsumption.”“anageofextremes”---“ofdeclineandprogress,ofpovertyanddazzlingwealth,ofgloomandbuoyanthope”,inauguratedin1869,andthetranscontinentaltelegraph,whichbeganoperatingin1861,esstomaterials,markets,:poorandovercrowdedhousing,unsanitaryconditions,lowpay(called"wageslavery"),difficultworkingconditions,(1860-1914)Broadlydefinedas"thefaithfulrepresentationofreality"or"verisimilitude,",realismisatechnique,italsodenotesaparticularkindofsubjectmatter,especiallytherepresentationofmiddle-,theterm"realism"passestheperiodoftimefromtheCivilWartotheturnofthecenturyduringwhichWilliamDeanHowells,aHardingDavis,HenryJames,MarkTwain,,evenattheexpenseofawell-;his/,toeachother,totheirsocialclass,.(charactersfromallsociallevelsareexaminedindepth).,,notheightenedorpoetic;ic,s