Unit 8
Regional Realism
Depicting the Local in American Literature, 1865-1900
Authors and Works 380
Overview Questions 380
Learning Objectives 380
Instructor Overview 381
Student Overview 382
Video Overview 383
Discussion Questions for the Video 384
Timeline 384
Author/Text Review 388
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910) 388
Teaching Tips 389
Web Archive 389
Questions 390
Bret Harte (1836-1902) 390
Teaching Tips 391
Questions 392
Web Archive 392
Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) 392
Teaching Tips 394
Questions 394
Web Archive 394
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) 396
Teaching Tips 397
Questions 398
Web Archive 398
Kate Chopin (1851-1904) 398
Teaching Tips 309
Questions 400
Web Archive 400
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) 400
Teaching Tips 402
Questions 402
Web Archive 402
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) 403
Teaching Tips 404
Questions 404
Web Archive 404
Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) (1859-1939) 405
Teaching Tips 406
Web Archive 406
Questions 406
Alexander Posey (1873-1908) 407
Teaching Tips 408
Web Archive 408
Questions 409
Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (1876-1938) 409
Teaching Tips 410
Questions 411
Web Archive 411
Suggested Author Pairings 412
Core Contexts 413
The Best Seat in the House: Parlors and the Development of Gentility in Nineteenth-Century America 412
Questions 415
Web Archive 415
Moving Pictures: Native American Self-Narration 416
Web Archive 418
Questions 419
Black, White, and Yellow: Coloring the News in Late-Nineteenth-Century-America 419
Questions 422
Web Archive 422
Extended Contexts 422
Monkeying Around: Trickster Figures and American Culture 434
Questions 425
Web Archive 425
The Human Framed: Anatomy, Photography, and Realism in Nineteenth-Century America 425
Questions 427
Web Archive 427
Assignments 427
Personal and Creative Responses 427
Problem-Based Learning Projects 428
Glossary 428
Selected Bibliography 430
Further Resources 431