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Chapter III Theodore Dreiser (1871 – 1945): Sister Carrie (1900) Trilogy of Desire: The Financier (1912), The Titan (1914), The Stoic (1947) Significance A pioneer of the naturalist school portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency Henry James:1843-1916 Daisy Miller (1878) The Portrait of A Lady (1881) The Wings of the Dove (1902) The Ambassador (1903) Significance the contrast between Europe and America the psychological and moral realism 5. Poetry Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Leaves of Grass I sit and Look Out Beat! Beat! Drum Significance The transition between Transcendentalism and Realism Free verse Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) : 1,775 clean, clear, chiseled poems are some of the most fascinating and challenging in American literature. I taste a liquor never brewed I felt a Funeral, in my brain I died for Beauty – but was scarce Major Themes Morbidity. Dickinsons poems reflect her early and lifelong fascination with illness, dying and death. Her poems allude to death by many methods: crucifixion, drowning, hanging, suffocation, freezing, premature burial, shooting, stabbing and guillotinage”. Flowers and gardens. Farr, a well-known researcher of Emily Dickinson, notes that Dickinsons poems and letters almost wholly concern flowers and that allusions to gardens often refer to an imaginative realm ... wherein flowers [are] often emblems for actions and emotions”. She associates some flowers, like gentians and anemones, with youth and humility; others with prudence and insight. * * Realistic Period RealismNaturalism Time: From: 1865 ( the end of Civil War) To: 1914 (the outbreak of the Great War/ World War I) 2. Influences Civil War The recovery from the war destruction The reestablishment of social order Industry and technology: the first transconti