American Literature: Realism and Naturalism Video

American Literature: Realism and Naturalism Video. Learning Objectives for this video:

• American Realism in Literature. Learn about American Literature and Realism and Naturalism. Survey American literary works of the mid-nineteenth century, a turbulent period dominated by the struggle over slavery and the pain of a nation divided by civil war.
• Explore the works of the Transcendentalists and other pre-eminent writers of the American Renaissance, including Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe.
• Discuss the literary contributions of Mark Twain, Joel Chandler Harris, and other writers who captured the flavor of a region through skillful dialogue and description.
• Gain insight to the abiding themes of struggle that illuminated the twilight of the Civil War-s aftermath. Witness the surrender of realism to naturalism and the emerging belief in a destiny controlled by biological, social, and economic forces.
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