Realism-5th

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=//"Realism is nothing more and nothing less than the treatment of material" //= [|Realism in American Literature] is exactly how it sounds. Realism is a direct representation of reality and the middle class in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Civil War has ended, and Reconstruction is the talk on the streets. Industrialization is happening almost too fast for anyone to keep up. [|The Rise of Realism] is coming about as the whole country is impacted by these changes and people being searching for an answer to their questions about the increase in democracy, quick Industrialization, vast immigration and the sudden rise of a middle class. Some say that Realism began in New England, but it did not stay there for long and spread to all parts of the country, mainly the mid-west and south. Writers believe that humanity's freedom of choice is limited by the power of outside forces. At the very beginning of the period, I became concerned with social issues, race novelists and problems of labor and women voting. As a result, I wrote //The Century// //, an article that everyone is telling me is beginning the "Realism War" between Realism and the Romantic writers. I'm finding that I am becoming known for my realistic fiction due to my novel __New Leaf Mills__ where I talk about my Ohio roots and how I was raised. I was raised surrounded by racism, and that is evident in some of my works. [|The William Dean Howells Society] was created in my name due to my powerful writings.

But, Realism does not just entail stories of our own lives. Realism is meant to capture local folkways and traditions before they are lost and connect with the public through regional dialects and an extensive dialogue. The writing style consists of comprehensive detail, complex ethical choices as the conflict, matter-of-fact tones and natural diction. [|Mark Twain] captures this the best out of all of us authors. He began the humorous verse that is turning into a chronicle of social criticisms and he is the master of casual and familiar speech, most likely because he grew up in a slave state of Missouri. His recent work of __Huckleberry Finn__ and __The Adventures of Tom Sawyer__ which are nearly parallel with his childhood. Another colleague of mine with a similar writing style is [|Henry James]. James was born on April 15th, 1843 in New York. His father Henry James Sr. is a very wealthy intellectual making sure James' main priority is education. They have traveled many parts of Europe living sometime in England where James chose to become a writer. He is a very intelligent man with complex prose that needs to be deciphered to begin to interpret. Most of his novels center around the innocence of the New World, and the corruption and wisdom of the Old World, mainly having his protagonists as young American women facing oppression or abuse. Unlike myself and Twain, James does not focus on the middle class, while his plots center around personal relationships and the power that exists in them. His most recent novels are __Portrait of a Lady__ and __The Turn of the Screw.__ He deliberately keeps his novels ambiguous, never clearly identifying the antecedents. His style shows his interest in psychology, most likely received from the intellectuals met through his father.

One of the reasons Realism will withstand the test of time is because it is aimed toward the middle class, the bulk of the population who are eager to read about the life they know. Issues shown in realism are marriage, domestic crisis, social classes and other relationships that will continue to exist through time that will still be discussed years from now.

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[|American Realism: Overview] [|American Realism Criticism]