文档介绍：Realistic literature
US realistic literature lagged behind European realistic literature for about half a century. (-118)
William Dean Howells: A modem Instance
The Rise of Silas Lapham
Mark Twain: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
The Innocent Abroad
The Gilded Age
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Henry James: The American
Daisy Miller
The Portrait of a Lady
The Golden Bowl
Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth
The Age of Innocence
Poems after the War
The Black Mountain Poets:
Charles Olson Robert Creeley
Robert Duncan Denise Levertov
Beat poets:(-376)
Allen Ginsberg Gary Snyder Gregory Corso
Confession poets:
Robert Lowell John Berryman Silvia Plath
New Surrealist poets:
Robert Bligh James Wright
Features of Realism:
It expresses the concern for the world of experience, of the commonplace, for the familiar and the low.
The Realism writers wrote about what they observed and knew. They believed that representation of life should be the main object of the novel, and offered an objective rather than an idealized view of human nature and experience.
Realism reacts against Romanticism's emphasis on intuition, imagination, a dreary sense of wonder, idealism, faith in nature and general optimistic belief in the goodness of things.
【美国】Chapter 2 The Realistic Period现实主义时期
This new attitude was characterized by a great interest in the realities of 于对现实生活产生了浓厚的兴趣，产生了新的创作灵感。
The three dominant figures of the period are William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and Henry ，亨利• 温。
In short, they set the example and charted the future course for the subjects, themes, techniques and styles of fiction we still call ，他们为后来的现实文学在题材，技巧和风格上都树立了典范。
Howells focused his discussion on the rising middle class and the way they lived, while Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories. 豪威尔斯讨论上升的中产阶级及其生活方式，的人放在故事的最前沿。