ENGLISH 519: "The Real Thing"
American Realisms of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
 Dr. Karen Roggenkamp
 

  
Syllabus & Handouts

Syllabus, Spring 2010

Bibliography--American Realism and Naturalism

Realism

Naturalism

 


     
   

 


Image: Cityscape by Jacob Riis, 1890
 

Related Historical Links (Optional)
 
Labor:
America at Work
Coal Mining
Haymarket Riot
Dramas of Haymarket
Triangle Factory Fire
American Sweatshops
Gilded Age Webquest
 
Immigration and Urban Life:
Chinese Immigration
Hull House
 
Women's Issues:
Women, Sexuality, and Morality
Margaret Sanger
The New Woman
Women's Suffrage Movement, 1830s-1820s
Women's Roles in the 1880s
Gibson Girls
 
Fine Arts:
Ash Can School
Ash Can Artists--Smithsonian
Ethnic Imagery in Ash Can Art
Women's Art at the Columbian Exposition
 
Social Darwinism and Class Issues:
Social Darwinism Defined
Rise of Big Business
The Gospel of Wealth
The Idle Rich
 
Racial Issues:
Reconstruction and Its Aftermath
Booker T. Washington Era
Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
Jim Crow
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow and Popular Culture
Racism and Social Darwinism
Wounded Knee
 
Imperialism and the Spanish-American War:
The World of 1898
Political Cartoons
Spanish-American War Centennial Website
Journalism and the Spanish-American War
Anti-Imperialist League (Twain, Howells, et al.)

  Related Lit Links (Optional)

 

General/Historical:
Timeline of American Literature
Media History Timeline
European Roots of Realism
Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism--Definitions
Regionalism & Local Color
Regionalism & Local Color Fiction
Gilded-Age Resources on the WWW
 
Rebecca Harding Davis:
Biographical Essay
Davis Page--Donna Campbell
 
Louisa May Alcott:
Alcott Page--Donna Campbell
Biographical Sketch
Orchard House
 
Henry James:
James Page--Donna Campbell
James Scholar's Guide to Websites
Henry James Society
 
William Dean Howells:
Biographical Essay
Howells Page--Donna Campbell
William Dean Howells Society
James W. Tuttleton, "William Dean Howells and the Practice of Criticism." The New Criterion 10 (1992)
 
Frank Norris:
Norris Page--Donna Campbell
 
Stephen Crane:
Crane Page--Donna Campbell
Biographical Essay
Stephen Crane Society
 
Charlotte Perkins Gilman:
"Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'"
Suffrage Songs & Verses by Gilman
Gilman Page--Donna Campbell
 
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman:
Freeman Page--Donna Campbell
 
Kate Chopin:
Chopin Page--Donna Campbell
Biographical Essay
Critical Reception of The Awakening
Kate Chopin Society
 
Mark Twain:
Mark Twain in his Times
Huck Finn Teacher's Guide
Twain Page--Donna Campbell
"Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses"
 
Charles Chesnutt:
"The Passing of Grandison"
Chesnutt Page--Donna Campbell
Wilmington Race Riot Commission
Wilmington Race Riots
Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (PBS)
"The Minstrel Mask"
History of Jim Crow
Behind the Veil (Duke University)
Jim Crow Museum (Ferris State U.)
Chesnutt in the Classroom (Berea U.)
Jae Roe, "Keeping an Old Wound Alive"
Gerald Ianovici, "'A Living Death'"
 
Edith Wharton:
Edith Wharton's World
Wharton Page--Donna Campbell
Donald Pizer--"The Naturalism of . . ."
Tableau Vivant
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