Authors
This author is claimed as both an American and British writer.
Who is Henry James?
This word means the author is trying to teach you something.
What is didactic?
This short story is about a young American girl visiting Europe.
What is "Daisy Miller?"
The Realistic period marks the beginning of this social construct.
What is feminism?
What is The Civil War and WWI?
This author wrote from the perspective of animals.
Who is Jack London?
This means someone is represented in the language or dialect they use.
What is vernacular?
This play allows us to be the "fly on the wall" watching while a marriage disintegrates.
What is "A Doll's House?
Many Realists wrote against this abhorrent social construct.
What is slavery?
Realism was a reaction against this literary period.
What is Romanticism?
This author was a proto-feminist.
Who is Kate Chopin?
This is a sub-genre of Realism and focuses on an element we have no control over.
What is Naturalism?
This story is about a "heartless" wife who dies when she realizes her husband is actually alive.
What is "The Story of an Hour?"
The Realists were the first group of writers who tried comment on this as much as possible.
What is problems in society?
This woman held the most power, money and autonomy during the Realistic period.
What is a widow?
This author wrote about war and poverty.
Who is Stephan Crane?
This term (two words) means one of the things authors wrote against about culture during the Realistic period.
What is social critique?
This story shows what happens when a wife (the proletariat) produces a flawed heir for her husband (the bourgeois).
What is "Desiree's Baby?"
Middle class Americans legitimized their new money by doing this.
What is marrying their daughters to titled Europeans?
Literary Realism spread because people were what?
What is more literate?
This author wrote primarily plays about the imbalance of power in marriage.
Who is Henrik Ibsen
These two words have both a literal and figurative meaning in "Daisy Miller."
What is Roman Fever?
This story is a cautionary tale about what happens when people worship the making of money like a religion.
What is the "Apostate?"
This social construct shows the reason for the divide between social classes.
What is old money vs. new money?
While this is a big part of Romantic writing, it is purposely left out of Realistic writing.
What is the supernatural?