Jeongeun Lee Hayoung Seok Hyunhee Kim The Civil War and the “Gilded Age”

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In American literature, the term "realism" encompasses the period of time from the Civil War Realism A writer who makes much use of local color especially as derived from the quaint or picturesque. Local colorist Key words

The American Civil War, known the War Between the States or simply the Civil War ( ) Civil war The Gilded Age was an era of enormous growth Gilded age The river’s importance as a route of tr ade and travel. not least to the Confederacy Mississippi river

Harriet Beecher Stowe( ) Uncle Tom’s cabin (uncle Tom, who has the hope of freedom held before him. But who never escapes from his slavery in the end, he welcomes the death caused by his master.) American abolitionist and author Written about slavery

Walt Whitman ( ) He was an poet and journalist. He wanted to America become democracy. He engaged in civil war by nurse. Whitman is the first poet that seemed to speak for all of the new United States.

Emily Dickinson( ) Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 and is considered one of the greatest poets of all time During her lifetime, only seven poems of Emily Dickinson’s were published It is not known if she even knew that any of her poems had ever been published

Mark Twain( ) Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer He became a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River Mark twain wrote the classic story the Adventure of Tom sawyer

Summary Emily Dickinson As a transcendentalists, she saw “the possible” as more important than “the actual”. Many mystical and unrhymed poems.. Walt Whitman He thought Message was more important than form, and he wrote poems in a plain style. Leaves of grass (1855) Harriet Beecher Stowe Lincoln said “Little woman who made the book that led great war” Uncle Tom’ cabin (1852)

Summary Hoax – tricks, something intended to deceive The Celebrated Jumping FrogThe Innocents Abroad Mark Twain(Samuel Clemens) Bret Harte Local color, realism“The Luck of Roaring Camp”

The Period of the Civil War Golden Age Gilded Age a small number of millionaire businessmen held great power in American society Underneath was filled with crime and social injustice of American society

Quizzes 1) Who is she ? Hint ! She is an America poet and a transcendentalist. 2) Who is he ? Hint ! He is famous for his “hoax” stories. Emily Dickinson Mark Twain

Quizzes 3) What is the Stowe’s major work? 4) What is the name of the poetry collection that Whitman spent his entire life? Leaves of Grass Uncle Tom’s cabin

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