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Civil War Era: History & Literature

This document provides an overview of emerging realism in America following the Civil War by discussing the historical context and key events that divided the nation, as well as the literature that emerged during and after this time period. It outlines the cultural and economic divides between the North and South pre-Civil War, the events of the Civil War itself, and the emancipation of slaves after the war. It then examines works by authors like Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Douglass, and others that reflected the social changes and conflicts of the era through various literary forms like slave narratives, fiction, diaries, letters, and poetry.

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Civil War Era: History & Literature

This document provides an overview of emerging realism in America following the Civil War by discussing the historical context and key events that divided the nation, as well as the literature that emerged during and after this time period. It outlines the cultural and economic divides between the North and South pre-Civil War, the events of the Civil War itself, and the emancipation of slaves after the war. It then examines works by authors like Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Douglass, and others that reflected the social changes and conflicts of the era through various literary forms like slave narratives, fiction, diaries, letters, and poetry.

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Juliana A.

Garcia
Pd.6
1-11-16
I. Emerging Realism: Historical Context
A. Cultural Divide:
i. Abraham Lincoln
1. North economy based on trade and industry.
2. South economy based on agricultural growth to export.
3. Slavery divides nation.
ii. Bleeding Kansas
1. Abolitionist John Brown
iii. Henry David Thoreau
1. Called Brown an angel of light
iv. Nathaniel Hawthorne
1. Replied, no man was ever more justly hanged.
v. Conflicts reach the government
vi. Dred Scott
1. Case of Dred Scott
B. The Civil War
i. South
1. Formed Confederate States of America
ii. Reality Strikes
1. Divide nation
iii. Battle of bull run
iv. General Robert E.Lee
1. Surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse.
II. Ideas of the Age
A. Freedom and Unity
i. Emancipation Proclamation
ii. Thirteenth amendment
iii. Frederick Douglass
1. We shout for joy that we live to record this righteous decree,
III. Literature of the Times
A. Brilliant Mavericks: Whiteman and Dickinson
i. Ralph Waldo
1. Issued A challenge to American
ii. Walt Whiteman and Emily Dickinson
1. Answer Emersons bold call
iii. Whiteman
1. Poetry leaves of grass
iv. Dickinson
1. Found traditional poetic forms inadequate
B. Literature of the Civil War
i. Slave writing
1. Slave narratives revealed the truth about slavery made
readers care for them
ii. Fiction moved towards realism
iii. Soldiers

1. Shared their civil war in diaries and letters


iv. Abraham Lincoln
1. Wrote to bigger audiences about civil war
2. Gettysburg address
v. Writers that created fiction after the war
1. Ambrose Bierce
2. Stephen Crane
IV. Connecting Literature, History, and Culture
A. American Literary Milestones
i. Fredrick Douglass
1. Autobiographical slave narrative, My Bondage and My Freedom
ii. The Atlantic Monthly
1. Writers and editors contributed to the magazine.
iii. Henry David Thoreau
1. A plea for captain john brown
iv. Harriet Jacobs
1. First autobiography written by a former slave
v. Emily Dickinson
1. Writes 366 poems
B. Historical Context
i. Preston S. Brooks
1. Beats Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner
ii. Australia
1. Two states of Australia introduce the Australian (ballot)
iii. Indians rebel against the British
iv. Charles Darwin
1. Origin of species
2. Great Expectation
v. Czar Alexander ll of Russia
1. Frees serfs
vi. Jean Foucault
1. Calculates speed of light
vii. Victor Hugo
1. Les Miserable
viii. Abraham Lincoln
1. Delivers Gettysburg Address
ix. New Orleans Tribune
1. First daily newspaper
x. Walt Whiteman
1. Pens his classic ode
xi. Mark Twain
1. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other
Sketches
xii. Mary Alcott
1. Part 1 Little Women
xiii. Bren Harte
1. The Luck of Roaring Camp and other sketches
xiv. Lincolns signs the emancipation proclamation

xv. William Tecumseh Sherman marches from Atlanta to Atlantic ocean


xvi. Civil war ends, Lincoln assassinated, 13 amendment abolishes
slavery
xvii. US buys Alaska from Russia
xviii. Congress pass 14th amendment
xix. Golden pike hammered at promontory point, Utah
xx. Hiram R. Revels first black senator
xxi. Leo Tolstoy
1. War and peace
xxii. Louis Pasteur
1. Invented pasteurization
xxiii. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1. Crime and punishment
xxiv. Suez canal completed in Egypt
xxv. Queen Isabella ll of Spain abdicates throne to her son Alfonso Xll

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