1. Agenda 9/16 Homework: PRESENTATIONS TOMORROW! Literary Timeline
Satire Notes

2. Literary Timeline Colonialism (1660 – 1776) Realism (1865 – 1910)
Revolutionary Period (1776 – 1825)
Transcendentalism (1835 – 1860)
Realism (1865 – 1910)
Modernism (1890 – 1945)
Post-Modernism (1945 – 2006)

3. Transcendentalism to Realism
DATE: 1835 – 1860
HISTORICAL CONTEXT:
America is a new and developing country. Anything seems possible.
IDEALS:
Nature
Universal Soul
Non-Conformity
Imagination
Childhood
Realism
DATE:
HISTORICAL CONTEXT: Begins with the devastations of the Civil War, and continues into the Reconstruction Period, Jim Crow Era, and Mass Immigration.
IDEALS:
True to Everyday Life
Common Man and Woman
Avoids Fantasy and Sentimentalism
Graphic in Depictions of Violence

4. Satire in Realism
In order to understand what we are reading in our Realism works, we will first need to understand SATIRE: