American Literature / Unit 11 AML 1002 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Conditions That Produced It
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The idea
The Civil War, industrial growth, immigration, the railroad and a national magazine market all arrived together, and they gave writers a country changing fast enough to want describing. Realism is the literature of a nation that had stopped being rural and was not yet sure what it had become.
In practice
War, railroads, magazines, and a changed country.
Where people slip
The magazine market shaped the writing.
Your place on the trail
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