1.现实主义美国文学.ppt

American Realism;Note：The two-stage development of realism;Time span: 1865-1918; After the Civil War (1861-1865), capitalist America witnesses the looming of a gilded age rather than a golden age Heading for industrialization: the deterioration in public morality; public lust for wealth and power Extremes of wealth and poverty: the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few Life: a veritable struggle for survival Basic tone: widely felt disillusionment and frustration;verisimilitude of detail derived from observation The effort to approach the norm of experience– a reliance on the re