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Description
Mind Map by Rose Carter, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Rose Carter
almost 9 years ago
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Realism
- Purpose
- Socio-economic commentary
- Draws attention to the exploitive conditions endured by poor immigrant workers
- commentary on the middle-classes
- The "Great Gulf" that exists between classes
- Divided Time
- Class
- race
- Gender
- Class
- The worker works in hell, but has a soul and is as worthy of redemption as "you" the middle class reader
- Divided Time
- The "Great Gulf" that exists between classes
- Draws attention to the exploitive conditions endured by poor immigrant workers
- Appeal to the middle class readers
- Higher literacy levels
- Higher literacy levels
- Amy Kaplan: "A
strategy for
imagining and
managing the
threats of social
change"
- Reaction against Romanticism
- Hawthorne
- The Social Novel
- The Social Novel
- Hawthorne
- Socio-economic commentary
- Tone
- Matter-of-fact
- Narrator's use of "you"
- "I want you to
hide your
disgust...come
right down with
me- here, into the
thickest of the
fog, mud and foul
effluvia"
- "I want you to
hide your
disgust...come
right down with
me- here, into the
thickest of the
fog, mud and foul
effluvia"
- Narrator's use of "you"
- Satiric
- Comical
- Natural Vernacular
- Matter-of-fact
- Realism?
- Realistic, banal activities
- Verisimiltude
- Period from the Civil War to the turn of the century
- 1860-1890s
- 1860-1890s
- Harmon and Holman:
"Where romantics
transcend the immediate
to find the idea;, and the
naturalists plumb the
actual or superficial to
find the scientific laws
that control its actions,
realists center their
attention to a
remarkable degree on
the immediate, the here
and now, the scientific
action and the verifiable
consequence"
- Realistic, banal activities
- Emphasis on
- weather
- "A cloudy day"
- "the air is
thick, clammy
with the
breath of
human
beings"
- "A cloudy day"
- Setting - descriptive
- Characters> Plot/Action
- Sensual
- weather
- Industrialization
- Heard before it's seen
- "like thunder
from a
thousand
engines"
- "like thunder
from a
thousand
engines"
- Hugh: Laborer - Sculpter
- Welsh Immigrant
- Hugh is a man who believes he can
alter his existence; his position is
not merely hereditary and
transformation can be realised
through social integration
- Hugh is a man who believes he can
alter his existence; his position is
not merely hereditary and
transformation can be realised
through social integration
- Welsh Immigrant
- Heard before it's seen
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