American LiteraturePathfinder

The Age of Realism

Search Terms

(Use for computer searches)

  • American Literature
  • American Literature-Civil War
  • American Literature-World War I
  • American Literature-Realism

Subject Headings

(Use in card catalogs and print indexes)

  • Realism
  • Authors, American
  • Poets, American
  • American Literature-Nineteenth Century
  • American Literature-Twentieth Century

Call Number

  • 810, 823, 921, 973.3(Dewey Decimal)

PN3499, PN6112, PS374, PS658(Library of Congress)

Databases

  • SIRS Discovery
  • United Streaming
  • ProQuest Professional
  • SAILOR – Maryland

Library catalogs

  • BCPSS Library Catalog
  • Enoch Pratt Free Library

August 2005

This pathfinder will be useful in finding information about American literature covering the Civil War period through World War I including the Age of Realism.

For an introduction to the topic, see:

World Book Online:"American literature." World Book Online ReferenceCenter. 2005. World Book, Inc. 21 August. 2005.

Key Resources at a Glance:

  • American Literature Comes of Age (1850-1900) falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/amlitage.htm

Reference Background

Available from ProQuest Learning: Literature

  • International Information Programs: The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914 usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oal/lit5.htm
  • NCTE: American Realism: 1865-1910
  • The Civil War and SlaveryHistorical Documents , 2003.
  • Indian-White Relations During the Civil WarHistorical Documents , 2003.

Resources

Books

  • Encyclopedia of American literature edited by Carol Berkin (2002).
  • A farewell to arms : the war of the wordsby Robert W. Lewis (1992).
  • Realism, naturalism, and local color, 1865-1917by Gale Research Co. (1988).
  • American realists and naturalists edited by Donald Pizer and Earl N. Harbert (1982).
  • Stephen Crane, from parody to realism by Eric Solomon (1966).

Journals

Available from ProQuest Learning: Literature

  • The Culture Concept: Writing and Difference in the Age of Realism, Jirousek,Lori;Journal of Popular Culture(Bowling Green) , May 2004, Vol. 37, Iss. 4, pg. 729.
  • An Outline of Literature, 2: Democratic Origins and Revolutionary Writers, 1776-1820 odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/chap2.htm.
  • Booker T. Washington and Black Progress: Up From Slavery 100 Years Laterby Lindsey, Fred; Black Issues Book Review(Fairfax); Jul 01, 2004; Vol. 6; Iss. 4; pg. 55.
  • The great war and modern gender consciousness: The subversive tactics of Djuna BarnesMargaret Bockting; Mosaic : a Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature(Winnipeg); Sep 01, 1997; Vol. 30; Iss. 3; pg. 21.
Authors of the Period

Available from ProQuest Learning: Literature

The Age of Realism

  • Cather, Willa, 1873-1947
  • Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932
  • Clemens, Samuel (Twain, Mark), 1835-1910
  • Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900
  • Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945
  • Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
  • Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945.
  • Harte, Bret, 1836-1902
  • James, Henry, 1843-1916
  • Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938.
  • Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931
  • London, Jack, 1876-1916
  • Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950
  • Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935
  • Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967.
  • Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
  • Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937

Web Pages and Web Portals

  • Links to American Literature Online usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/arts/onlit.htm
  • Realism in American Literature, 1860-1890
  • Late Nineteenth Century: American Realism - A Brief Introduction
  • Civil War Literature
  • First World War and Poetry Links
  • Links to World War I Literature home.online.no/~helhoel/ib/ww1.htm

Multimedia Resources

  • Neoclassicism & Romanticism and Realism (1987). Video.
  • American history through folksong [sound recording] / [Keith & Rusty McNeil](1989). Sound recording.
  • Video Archives: American Writers

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