Realism And Regionalism: (1860-1910) (Background to American Literature)

Now in full color for the first time, this updated and expanded edition discusses sectionalism, industrialism, and literary regionalism; slave narratives and race relations; the life and works of Mark Twain; urban writers and internationalism; regionalism; and naturalism, determinism, and social reform.

Topics include:

• Slave narratives and race relations
• Urban writers and internationalism
• Protest writers and literature of social reform
• Naturalism and sectionalism
• African-American voices
• And more.

Writers covered include:

• Horatio Alger
• Charles Chesnutt
• Kate Chopin
• Stephen Crane
• William Dean Howells
• Harriet Jacobs
• Henry James
• Jack London
• Upton Sinclair
• Mark Twain
• Edith Wharton
• And many others.