Unit 8
Regional Realism
Depicting the Local in American Literature, 1865-1900
Authors and Works 322
Overview Questions 322
Learning Objectives 322
Overview 323
Video Overview 324
Discussion Questions for the Video 325
Timeline 326
Author/Text Review 326
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910) 328
Questions 329
Web Archive 329
Bret Harte (1836-1902) 330
Questions 331
Web Archive 331
Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) 331
Questions 333
Web Archive 333
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) 335
Questions 336
Web Archive 336
Kate Chopin (1851-1904) 336
Questions 337
Web Archive 337
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) 338
Questions 339
Web Archive 339
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) 340
Questions 341
Web Archive 341
Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) (1858-1939) 341
Questions 342
Web Archive 342
Alexander Posey (1873-1908) 343
Questions 344
Web Archive 344
Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (1876-1938) 345
Questions 345
Web Archive 345
Core Contexts 346
The Best Seat in the House: Parlors and the Development of Gentility in Nineteenth-Century America 346
Web Archive 346
Questions 349
Moving Pictures: Native American Self-Narration 350
Web Archive 351
Questions 352
Black, White, and Yellow: Coloring the News in Late-Nineteenth-Century America 353
Questions 353
Web Archive 353
Extended Contexts 354
Monkeying Around: Trickster Figures and American Culture 356
Questions 356
Web Archive 358
The Human Framed: Anatomy, Photography, and Realism in Nineteenth-Century America 358
Personal and Creative Responses 361
Problem-Based Learning Projects 361
Glossary 362
Selected Bibliography 364
Further Resources 364