Self-Sufficiency
small family,
more isolated,
everyone having own and that was the core of Democracy> towards cities, public lives
become part of economic system
Second half of 19th Century
200
William Howells: A Hazard of New Fortunes
1890
200
Stephen Crane: Blue Hotel
1898
200
Galway Kinnell: The Bear
1968
200
Kate Chopin: Desiree's Baby
1890's
200
Realism
Reflects social problems
Focuses on lower to Middle class
Prose form 1865-1915
300
Stephen Crane's :Opium's Varied Dreams and Adventures of a Novelist
1896
300
E.E. Cummings: Buffalo Bill
1923
300
William Stafford: Travelling Through the Dark, Help from History, Paso Por Aqui, Late, Passing Prairie Farm
1960's
300
Grace King: Little Covenant Girl
1893
300
Frontier Thesis
Frederick Jackson Turner gave famous talk 1893 at World’s Fair in Chicago on the Frontier
defined the idea of U.S. history as frontier moving east to west,
The Meeting place between civilization (towns/settlement) and savagery (Indians-a wild land) aka displacement, American exceptionalism, FRONTIER THESIS: Westward movement W.H Auden
400
Henry James: American Scene
1907
400
Ernest Hemingway: The Clark's Fork Valley Wyoming
1939
400
Gary Snyder: Above Pate Valley, Painting North San Juan School, Getting in the Wood, Dillingham, Alaska, The Willow Tree Bar
1983
400
William Faulkner: Wash
1934
400
Modernism
Intentional break with past
more human characters
cultural dominance
Identity crisis
trouble fitting in
unintentional mention of consciousness
Myths of America not functioning
500
Ezra Pound: On the Metro
1913
500
Theodore Roethke: All Morning and The Far Field
1964
500
Allen Ginsberg: A Supermarket in California
1984
500
Flannery O'Connor: Everything that Rises Must Converge
1965
500
Darwinism/Naturalism
second half of 19th century
evolution and applying it to social advancement