History of the United States II / Unit 4 USH2 0480 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Realism in Literature
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The idea
Writers turned to realism and naturalism, portraying life as it was lived: Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn of eighteen eighty-four and Stephen Crane's stories of the slums.
In practice
Kate Chopin's The Awakening of eighteen ninety-nine, questioning the domestic role society gave women.
Where people slip
Paul Laurence Dunbar, writing in standard English and in dialect, became the leading African American writer of his generation.
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