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    Juliana Garcia
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    This document provides an overview of emerging realism in America following the Civil War by discussing the historical context and key events that divided the nation, as well as the literature that emerged during and after this time period. It outlines the cultural and economic divides between the North and South pre-Civil War, the events of the Civil War itself, and the emancipation of slaves after the war. It then examines works by authors like Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Douglass, and others that reflected the social changes and conflicts of the era through various literary forms like slave narratives, fiction, diaries, letters, and poetry.

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    This document provides an overview of emerging realism in America following the Civil War by discussing the historical context and key events that divided the nation, as well as the literature that emerged during and after this time period. It outlines the cultural and economic divides between the North and South pre-Civil War, the events of the Civil War itself, and the emancipation of slaves after the war. It then examines works by authors like Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Douglass, and others that reflected the social changes and conflicts of the era through various literary forms like slave narratives, fiction, diaries, letters, and poetry.

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    Emerging Realism

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    Juliana Garcia
    This document provides an overview of emerging realism in America following the Civil War by discussing the historical context and key events that divided the nation, as well as the literature that emerged during and after this time period. It outlines the cultural and economic divides between the North and South pre-Civil War, the events of the Civil War itself, and the emancipation of slaves after the war. It then examines works by authors like Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Douglass, and others that reflected the social changes and conflicts of the era through various literary forms like slave narratives, fiction, diaries, letters, and poetry.

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    I. Emerging Realism: Historical Context
    A. Cultural Divide:
    i. Abraham Lincoln
    1. North economy based on trade and industry.
    2. South economy based on agricultural growth to export.
    3. Slavery divides nation.
    ii. Bleeding Kansas
    1. Abolitionist John Brown
    iii. Henry David Thoreau
    1. Called Brown an angel of light
    iv. Nathaniel Hawthorne
    1. Replied, no man was ever more justly hanged.
    v. Conflicts reach the government
    vi. Dred Scott
    1. Case of Dred Scott
    B. The Civil War
    i. South
    1. Formed Confederate States of America
    ii. Reality Strikes
    1. Divide nation
    iii. Battle of bull run
    iv. General Robert E.Lee
    1. Surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse.
    II. Ideas of the Age
    A. Freedom and Unity
    i. Emancipation Proclamation
    ii. Thirteenth amendment
    iii. Frederick Douglass
    1. We shout for joy that we live to record this righteous decree,
    III. Literature of the Times
    A. Brilliant Mavericks: Whiteman and Dickinson
    i. Ralph Waldo
    1. Issued A challenge to American
    ii. Walt Whiteman and Emily Dickinson
    1. Answer Emersons bold call
    iii. Whiteman
    1. Poetry leaves of grass
    iv. Dickinson
    1. Found traditional poetic forms inadequate
    B. Literature of the Civil War
    i. Slave writing
    1. Slave narratives revealed the truth about slavery made
    readers care for them
    ii. Fiction moved towards realism
    iii. Soldiers

    1. Shared their civil war in diaries and letters


    iv. Abraham Lincoln
    1. Wrote to bigger audiences about civil war
    2. Gettysburg address
    v. Writers that created fiction after the war
    1. Ambrose Bierce
    2. Stephen Crane
    IV. Connecting Literature, History, and Culture
    A. American Literary Milestones
    i. Fredrick Douglass
    1. Autobiographical slave narrative, My Bondage and My Freedom
    ii. The Atlantic Monthly
    1. Writers and editors contributed to the magazine.
    iii. Henry David Thoreau
    1. A plea for captain john brown
    iv. Harriet Jacobs
    1. First autobiography written by a former slave
    v. Emily Dickinson
    1. Writes 366 poems
    B. Historical Context
    i. Preston S. Brooks
    1. Beats Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner
    ii. Australia
    1. Two states of Australia introduce the Australian (ballot)
    iii. Indians rebel against the British
    iv. Charles Darwin
    1. Origin of species
    2. Great Expectation
    v. Czar Alexander ll of Russia
    1. Frees serfs
    vi. Jean Foucault
    1. Calculates speed of light
    vii. Victor Hugo
    1. Les Miserable
    viii. Abraham Lincoln
    1. Delivers Gettysburg Address
    ix. New Orleans Tribune
    1. First daily newspaper
    x. Walt Whiteman
    1. Pens his classic ode
    xi. Mark Twain
    1. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other
    Sketches
    xii. Mary Alcott
    1. Part 1 Little Women
    xiii. Bren Harte
    1. The Luck of Roaring Camp and other sketches
    xiv. Lincolns signs the emancipation proclamation

    xv. William Tecumseh Sherman marches from Atlanta to Atlantic ocean


    xvi. Civil war ends, Lincoln assassinated, 13 amendment abolishes
    slavery
    xvii. US buys Alaska from Russia
    xviii. Congress pass 14th amendment
    xix. Golden pike hammered at promontory point, Utah
    xx. Hiram R. Revels first black senator
    xxi. Leo Tolstoy
    1. War and peace
    xxii. Louis Pasteur
    1. Invented pasteurization
    xxiii. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    1. Crime and punishment
    xxiv. Suez canal completed in Egypt
    xxv. Queen Isabella ll of Spain abdicates throne to her son Alfonso Xll

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