LiteratureMany diaries, journals, and letters were written by slaves before and during war time. The literature also started to expand westward as settlers started moving that way. In this literature, the characters are superior to circumstance and they are more important to the plot. They focus more on the realistic aspects of life and these characters are shown in the more middle class facing hardships of everyday life because that is how life was then.
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AuthorsMark Twain - One of the greatest
American authors, Twain wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which captured the everyday style of the characters that he wrote about. Edith Wharton - wrote fiction in the Realistic way about the eastern, higher society that she was born into |
NaturalismWith naturalism, characters did not have free will and they believed that internal forces, environment, or heredity control their behavior
RegionalismThis type of writing focuses on the characters, dialect, landscape, and other features specific to a certain region. It has emphasis on nature.
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