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American realism was a movement in art, music and literature that depicted contemporary social realities and the lives and everyday activities of ordinary people. The movement began in literature in the mid-19th century, and became an important tendency in visual art in the early 20th century.
William Dean Howells (1837–1920) was the first American author to bring a realist aesthetic to the literature of the United States. [45] His stories of middle and upper class life set in the 1880s and 1890s are highly regarded among scholars of American fiction.
Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by genre or period. Like other categorizations, literary movements provide language for comparing and discussing literary works. These terms are helpful for curricula or anthologies. [1]
George Eliot's novel Middlemarch stands as a great milestone in the realist tradition. It is a primary example of nineteenth-century realism's role in the naturalization of the burgeoning capitalist marketplace. William Dean Howells was the first American author to bring a realist aesthetic to the literature of the United States. His stories of ...
American literature is literature written or produced in the United States and ... The American Revolutionary Period ... Realism began to influence American drama, ...
Traces of Gold: California's Natural Resources and the Claim to Realism in Western American Literature. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. ISBN 0-8173-1117-3. Judith Fetterley; Marjorie Pryse (2003). Writing Out of Place: Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-02767-3.
Grant Wood's magnum opus American Gothic, 1930, has become a widely known (and often parodied) icon of social realism.. Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structures behind these conditions.
American Realism; Classical Realism; Literary realism, a movement from the mid-19th to the early 20th century; Magical realism, a genre of fiction and art that blurs the line between speculation and reality; Neorealism (art) Italian neorealism (film) Indian neorealism (film) New realism, a movement founded in 1960