EN 210 Domestic Realism
Nathaniel Hawthorne; When Nathaniel Hawthorne scribbled his now infamous judgment about his "fellow" women writers, they were vastly outselling him in all the mid-19th century markets.
America is now wholly given over to a d-----d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash-and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the 'Lamplighter,' and other books neither better nor worse?-worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the 100,000.
Realism
Depicts everyday and banal activities and experiences, instead of using a romanticized or similarly stylized presentation.
These are the ______ women that Nathaniel Hawthorne referred to:
Lydia Maria Child, Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Susan Warner, Maria Cummins, Harriet Beecher Stowe etc...
Major American realists
Mark Twain Henry James W.D. Howells Bret Harte Ambrose Bierce Sarah Orne Jewett Mary Wilkins Freeman Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charles W. Chesnutt Hamlin Garland
Women that played a large role in domestic realism
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Silas and Sally Phelps—Tom Sawyer's Uncle and Aunt, father and mother of large family, one-horse Arkansas plantation owners down river, who mistake Huck for their nephew Tom Sawyer and Tom Sawyer impersonating their nephew Sid Sawyer during "Evasion" scheme to free Jim from slavery, when Tom knows that he is already free.
Mark Twain
This author wrote American "girl" and "boy" books depicting the lives of American children
Hannibal, Missouri
This is the location for the famous stories "Adventures of Huck Finn" and "Tom Sawyer"
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Tom's most well now, and got his bullet around his neck on a watch-guard for a watch, and is always seeing what time it is, and so there ain't nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it, because if I'd a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn't a tackled it, and ain't a-going to no more. But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before. The End Yours Truly, Huck Finn
Tom Sawyer; Mark Twain
What book and by which author is the following quote from?: Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual -- he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture. The odd superstitions touched upon were all prevalent among children and slaves in the West at the period of this story -- that is to say, thirty or forty years ago. Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
What book are the following paragraphs from?: Her sister, Miss Watson, a tolerable slim old maid, with goggles on, had just come to live with her, and took a set at me now with a spelling-book. She worked me middling hard for about an hour, and then the widow made her ease up. I couldn't stood it much longer. Then for an hour it was deadly dull, and I was fidgety. Miss Watson would say, "Don't put your feet up there, Huckleberry;" and "Don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry -- set up straight;" and pretty soon she would say, "Don't gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry -- why don't you try to be- have?" Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there. She got mad then, but I didn't mean no harm. All I wanted was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change, I warn't particular. She said it was wicked to say what I said; said she wouldn't say it for the whole world; she was going to live so as to go to the good place. Well, I couldn't see no advantage in going where she was going, so I made up my mind I wouldn't try for it. But I never said so, because it would only make trouble, and wouldn't do no good
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
What book are the following paragraphs from?: After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people. Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and asked the widow to let me. But she wouldn't. She said it was a mean practice and wasn't clean, and I must try to not do it any more. That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it. Here she was a-bothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to any- body, being gone, you see, yet finding a power of fault with me for doing a thing that had some good in it. And she took snuff, too; of course that was all right, because she done it herself
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
What book is the following paragraph from? Now she had got a start, and she went on and told me all about the good place. She said all a body would have to do there was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever. So I didn't think much of it. But I never said so. I asked her if she reckoned Tom Sawyer would go there, and she said not by a considerable sight. I was glad about that, because I wanted him and me to be together
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
What book is the following paragraph from?: The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it. She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn't do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel all cramped up. Well, then, the old thing commenced again. The widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come to time. When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them, -- that is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
What book is the following paragraph from?: You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly -- Tom's Aunt Polly, she is -- and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before. Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece -- all gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round -- more than a body could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back.
Huckleberry Finn Preface
What is the following excerpt from?: NOTICE PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per G.G., Chief of Ordnance. EXPLANATORY IN this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary "Pike County" dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a hap- hazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech. I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding. THE AUTHOR.
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
What story are these characters from? - Narrator, diagnosed with mental illness, confined to attic room for "rest cure" Husband, John, a physician Brother, a physician Mary, nurse for baby Cousin Henry and Julia Mother, Nellie, children, visiting family members Dr. S. Weir Mitchell (actual public figure) Woman creeping around behind pattern in wallpaper Jennie, John's sister, housekeeper "Jane," (possibly) narrator's actual name
Tom Sawyer; Mark Twain
What story are these characters from?: Aunt Polly—Tom's aunt and guardian, sister of Tom's dead mother Tom Sawyer—"bad" good boy, aka "Black Avenger of the Spanish Main," aka "Robin Hood" Sid Sawyer—Tom's namby-pamby tattletale younger half-brother Mary—Tom's pious cousin Jim—slave boy owned by Aunt Polly, Tom's companion Ben Rogers—friend tricked by Tom into whitewashing fence, aka steamboat Big Missouri Billy Fisher, Johnny Miller—further victims of fence-whitewashing adventure New boy—defeated by Tom in fistfight after series of challenges New girl—object of Tom's showing off in street Mr. Walter, Sunday School Superintendent—supervises Bible contest Jeff Thatcher—local lawyer, Becky's uncle Judge Thatcher—Becky's father Becky Thatcher—blonde, blue eyed new girl, Tom's love interest
"The Revolt of Mother" by Mary Wilkins Freeman
What story are these characters from?: Father (Adoniram Penn) Mother (Sarah Penn) Sammy, son Nanny, daughter, engaged to George Eastman Hiram Penn, brother of Adoniram in Vermont Mr. Hersey, minister
"A White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewitt
What story are these characters from?: Sylvia, young town girl sent to country Mrs. Tilley, grandmother/guardian Young man, visitor from city, naturalist, collector of bird specimens
Father!" "What is it?" "What are them men diggin' over there in the field for?" There was a sudden dropping and enlarging of the lower part of the old man's face, as if some heavy weight had settled therein; he shut his mouth tight, and went on harnessing the great bay mare. He hustled the collar on to her neck with a jerk. "Father!" The old man slapped the saddle upon the mare's back. "Look here, father, I want to know what them men are diggin' over in the field for, an' I'm goin' to know."
What story is this quotation from?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Where are the following characters from? Huckleberry Finn—village pariah, homeless, motherless orphan, son of town drunk, adopted by Miss Watson, main character and first-person narrator Aunt Polly Mary Judge Thatcher Widow Douglas Tom Sawyer Miss Watson's Jim—adult male slave, Huck's eventual companion on the river Jo Harper, Ben Rogers, Tommy Barnes—members of Tom Sawyer robber gang Pap Finn
Sarah Jewitt
Who was "A White Heron" written by?
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Who wrote "The Revolt of Mother"?
female sphere
domestic, private world
male sphere
outer, public world
Stories/books published by Mark Twain
—"Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" 1869--Innocents Abroad 1872--Roughing It 1873—with Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age 1876—"Old Times on the Mississippi;" Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1880—A Tramp Abroad 1882—The Prince and the Pauper 1883—Life on the Mississippi 1885—Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1889—A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1894—Pudd'nhead Wilson 1896—Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc 1900—"The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" 1916—The Mysterious Stranger (posthumous)
