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Swarthmore College: "Realism" in Literature, Photography, Architecture
Site gives us a good definition of realism, especially in regard to literature of the Gilded Age.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Mark Twain, the Gilded Age
A critique of a realistic novel of the Gilded Age entitled "The Gilded Age." "The title is a masterly epigraph on the flushed, corrupt period of the Reconstruction."
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Class Consciousness in American Literature
This unit revolves around various social realist authors during the Gilded Age in America. Click the tabs for the list of authors, timeline, video and activities.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: Realism: Spirituals
This lesson focuses on the spirituals sung by the African American slaves as a way to express feeling and relay information in coded messages. as well as, to pass the time. It includes a PDF of the lyrics to two spirituals, "Go Down,...
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Gustav Flaubert: Madame Bovary
At this website, read all three parts of Gustav Flaubert's novel, "Madame Bovary." Each chapter has its own page.
Other
Brock University: Some Notes on Realism
This site talks about the different aspects of 19th-century realism. (From realist painting to literature)
Washington State University
Washington State University: Literary Movements: American Realism, 1865 1890
This site from Washington State University provides a good definition of American realism and explains the literary time period it encompasses. There is also a section that lists the characteristics of realism, practitioners, and context...
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: Realism
This Victorian Web site defines realism as used in literature and as a "nineteenth-century movement that believed novelists and painters should concentrate on describing the physical, material details of life."
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: Later National Literature: Pi
This encyclopedia, "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature" provided by Bartleby.com, includes some information in Book III (Later National Literature) about realism as related to the writer Poe. Find this information...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
Read the full text of the autobiography "The Education of Henry Adams" which discusses political, social, technological, and intellectual changes at the dawning of the 20th century.
Authors Calendar
Author's Calendar: Gustave Flaubert
A biography on Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880 CE), a French novelist of the realist school, best-known for MADAME BOVARY.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Madame Bovary
Despite being published in installments in 1856, Madame Bovary still ranks at the top of "must read" books. This site looks at the characters in depth, their motivations and important quotations.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Social Realism: American Passages: Timeline
Trace the historical events and literary publications from the 1870s to 1920 with this timeline that accompanies the video Social Realism.