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Title: American Realism


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American Realism
  • Introduction

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American Renaissance
  • Walt Whitman
  • Poet as prophet
  • Spirit of exuberance
  • Leaves of Grass (1855)
  • Spirit of American democracy (minorities, gay
    rights)

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  • Dead Poets' Society
  • Dead poets Whitman, Thoreau
  • Thoreau "I went to the woods because I wanted to
    live deliberately"
  • Nature, Romanticism

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American Renaissance
  • Building of the Suez canal
  • "Passage to India" (Walt Whitman)
  • Technological innovations

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Dark Renaissance
  • Skepticism about progress
  • Age of Imperialism
  • Annexation of the Philippines, 1898
  • Melville, Hawthorne, Poe negative aspects of
    science, human mind

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Civil War
  • Breaking apart of the unity of the nation
  • Traumatic countryman fighting against countryman

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Coming out of the War
  • After the war belief in rationality
  • Romanticism as idealizing, distorting reality
  • Henry James, spirit of debate, rationality

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Whitman vs. James
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International Theme
  • Americans compare themselves to Europe
  • (James, Twain)
  • Self-introspection

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Realism vs. Romanticism
  • Romanticism/
  • American Renaissance rose-colored vision
  • Realism striving for objectivity

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George Bellows, "Dempsey and Firpo" (1924)
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  • Ashcan school of painting
  • Urban scenes
  • Struggle for survival

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  • Struggle for survival
  • capitalism, industrialism
  • Horatio Alger From rags to richtes

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Edward Hopper
  • Realism, realistic landscape (New England)
  • Sense of loneliness, alienation
  • Industrialization (contrary to Whitman's
    exuberance)

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After Realism
  • After realism "sordid realism" naturalism
  • Women becoming prostitutes, men becoming beasts
  • Ruthless capitalism
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