1. By: Titan Nhan, Sunny Trivedi, and Nicole DiPietro
REALISM/REGIONALISM
By: Titan Nhan, Sunny Trivedi, and Nicole DiPietro

2. Realism
Concerned with just the facts; favoring practicality and literal truth

3. Practitioners Mark Twain William Dean Howells Rebecca Harding Davis
Henry James

4. Realism Authors Born- June 24, 1831 Died- September 29, 1910
Mark Twain
Rebecca Harding Davis
Born – November 30, 1835
Died – April 21, 1910
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Born- June 24, 1831
Died- September 29, 1910
Life in the Iron Mills
Frances Waldeaux

5. Realism Authors Born- April 15, 1843 Died – February 28, 1916
Henry James
William Dean Howells
Born- April 15, 1843
Died – February 28, 1916
The Turn of the Screw
What Maisie Knew
Born- March 1, 1837
Dies- May 11, 1920
The Rise of Silas Lapham
A Hazard of New Fortunes

6. Quotes about Realism
“Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.”
― Georgia O'Keeffe
“My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.”
― Gustave Flaubert

7. Principles
Character is more important than plot
Is supposed to instruct or entertain
The plots highlight the typical daily life
Realism was against romanticism and its unfamiliar or unusual subjects
Study of documented history and rational philosophy helped the rise of realism
“Regional literature is fiction and poetry that focuses on the characters, dialect, customs, topography, and other features particular to a specific region.” (

8. Compared To Other Eras
Romanticism- Focuses on characters instead of plot, there is no exaggeration life as is, full disclosure of facts opposed to limited. Modernism- Shares a similar characteristic portrays life as is with no romanticism. It has a non sequential timeline like realism stories.

9. Symbol
Realists did not believe in romanticism

10. Symbol
Realism represents reality

12. Practitioners
Regionalists present the culture of the area about which they write
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Rose Terry Cooke
Celia Thaxter

13. Authors Born- June 14, 1811 Died- July 1, 1896 Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Rose Terry Cooke
Born- June 14, 1811
Died- July 1, 1896
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Born- February 17, 1987
Died- July 18, 1892
How Celia Changed her Mind

14. Quotes About Regionalism
“Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.” - Franz Grillparzer

15. Symbol

16. Principles
Regionalism helped bring the country back together after the Civil War
Regional – influenced by romanticism and realism
Regionalism is an extension of realism

17. Realism & Regionalism
Both are from the Civil War to the end of the 1800s
Theme – “conflict between urban ways and old-fashioned rural values is often symbolized by the intrusion of an outsider or interloper who seeks something from the community” (