An Outline of American Literature

by Kathryn VanSpanckeren

5: The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914

1. Introduction
2. Frontier humor and realism
3. Local colorists
4. Midwestern realism
5. Cosmopolitan novelists - Naturalism and Muckraking
6. The "Chicago School" of poetry
7. Two women regional novelists
8. The rise of black American literature

• Authors