
Engl. 772-35 Period in Literature: American Realism

Literary Terms

- Adams, Henry
- Addams, Jane
- Bellamy, Edward
- Bierce, Ambrose
- Cable, George W.
- Cahan, Arbraham
- Chesnutt, Charles
- Chopin, Kate
- Crane, Stephen
- Davis, Rebecca Harding
- Dreiser, Theodore
- DuBois, W. E. B.
- Dunbar, Paul L.
- Dunbar-Nelson, Alice
- Eastman, Charles A.
- Far, Sui Sin
- Frederic, Harold
- Freeman, Mary Wilkins
- Foote, Mary Hallock
- Garland, Hamlin
- Gilman, Charlotte P.
- Harris, Joel Chandler
- Harte, Bret
- Hopkins, Pauline
- Howells, William Dean
- James, Henry
- Jewett, Sarah Orne
- London, Jack
- Norris, Frank
- Page, Thomas Nelson
- Oskison, John
- Riis, Jacob
- Phelps, Elizabeth S.
- Sinclair, Upton
- Turner, Frederic J.
- Twain, Mark
- Veblen, Thorstein
- Washington, Booker T.
- Wharton, Edith
- Woolson, Constance
- Zitkala-sa
Henry Adams
Texts
Jane Addams
Texts
Biography/Study Aids
Edward Bellamy
Texts
Ambrose Bierce
Texts
George Washington Cable
Texts
Biography/Study Aids
Scholarly Articles
Abraham Cahan
"The Cliff Dwellers" by George Bellows
Texts
Biography
Scholarly Articles
Charles Chesnutt
Texts
Biography/Study Aids
Scholarly Articles
Kate Chopin
Texts
"Young Mother Sewing" by Mary Cassatt
Biography/Study Aids
- Domestic Goddesses: Chopin biography--also good link to
essays/articles on Chopin's novel (scroll down to her name).
- Chopin Links--biography,
writings by and about Chopin.
- Footprints in
Cloutierville (Literary Traveler)--biography,
pictures of Chopin's house
- Visit to Grand Isle--with photos
- Definition of
"Creole"
- Kate Chopin--many, many
background links (music, art, women's
issues, birth control, hurricanes, etc.)
links to contexts for studying The
Awakening.
-
Chopin Enhancements--more contexts at this LPB site
- Study
questions: The Awakening.
- Whitman's 'Song of Myself'--see Canto 11 (Twenty-eight young men . . .).
- A Woman Far Ahead of Her
Time--introductory article on Chopin's life, themes in novel,
reception of novel.

Turn-of-the-Century
Bathing Suits (Charles Dana Gibson's "Gibson
Girls").
View upper-class 1890s Fashions and fashion magazine covers 1898-1900. More turn-of-the-19th-century fashion links.
Student Essays
Scholarly Articles
Stephen Crane
"The Bowery at Night" by William Louis Sonntag
Texts
Biography
Study Aids/Scholarly Articles
Rebecca Harding Davis
Texts
Biography/Study Aids
Scholarly Articles
Theodore Dreiser
"Manhattan's Misty Sunset"
by Childe Hassam
Texts
Biography/Study Aids
"Concert Stage"
by Everett Shinn
Scholarly Articles
W.E.B. DuBois
Texts
Biography
Scholarly Articles
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Texts
Biography/Study Aids
Scholarly Articles
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Texts
Biography/Study Aids
Scholarly Articles
Charles Alexander Eastman
Texts
Biography/Study Aids
 Amos Bad Heart Bull's drawing of
the defeat of Custer at Little Bighorn
(Artistic celebration of Indian victory.)
 Buffalo Bill advertising his theatrical
version of the Battle of Little
Bighorn (The "Wild West" as entertainment.)
Chief Sitting Bull and
Buffalo Bill Cody
Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton)
Texts
Biography/Study Aids
Scholarly Articles
Harold Frederic
Texts
Biography/Study Aids
Scholarly Articles
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Texts
Hamlin Garland
Texts
Biography/Study Aids
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Texts
Biography/Study Aids
Scholarly Articles
Joel Chandler Harris
Exodusters Waiting
for a Boat to Kansas
[Nicodemus, Kansas?]
Texts
Biography/Study Aids
Bret Harte
Texts
Scholarly Articles
Pauline Hopkins
Texts
Biography/Study Aids
Scholarly Articles
- Virtue, Housekeeping, and Domestic Space in Contending Forces--Wolf's scholarly
essay.
-
The Property of Inheritance, Race, and Sexual
Morality in Hopkins's Contending Forces--Nerad's scholarly article.
- Portrayals and Counter
Portrayals--graduate student essay (Am. Studies Association) on
images of black women by Jacobs, Harper,
and Hopkins.
- Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood, Africa, and the "Darwinist trap"--scholarly article.
-
Hysteria and Trauma in Pauline Hopkins' 'Of One Blood, Or, the Hidden
Self'--Horvitz's scholarly article.
-
Reading Racial Difference in Heliodorus's
Ethiopica and Hopkins's Of One Blood--Harris' scholarly article.
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Race Travel in Turn-of-the-Century African American Utopian Fiction--discusses
Of One Blood and other novels.
-
Kin' o'rough jestice fer a parson": Hopkins's 'Winona' and the
Politics of Reconstructing History--Patterson's
scholarly article.
- "So strangely interwoven": The Property of Inheritance, Race, and Sexual Morality in Pauline E. Hopkins's Contending Forces--scholarly article.
- Some commentary on Hopkins' lesser known
"mystery/detective" fiction
William Dean Howells
Texts
Biography
Scholarly Articles
Henry James
Texts
BiographyStudy Aids
Scholarly Articles
Sarah Orne Jewett
Texts
Biography/Study Aids
Scholarly Articles
Jack London
Texts
"A Stag
at Sharkeys" by George Bellows
Biography/Study Aids
Frank Norris
Texts
Biography/Study Aids
John Oskison
Texts
Biography/Study Aids
Thomas Nelson Page
Texts
Biography/Study Aids
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Texts
Biography/Study Aids
Jacob Riis photo nicknamed "Madonna of
the Slums"
Jacob Riis
Texts
Biography/Study Aids
Upton Sinclair
Texts
Biography
Frederick Jackson Turner
Texts
Biography/Study Aids
Mark Twain
Texts
Biography/Study Aids
Scholarly Articles
Thorstein Veblen
Texts
Biography/Study Aids
Booker T. Washington
Texts
Biography/Study Aids
Edith Wharton
"Lydia in
a Loge, with a Pearl Necklace"
by Mary Cassatt
Texts
Biography/Study Aids
Scholarly Articles
Constance Fenimore Woolson
Texts
Biography
Scholarly Articles
Zitkala-sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin)
Texts
Biography
Scholarly Articles
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