| Nathaniel Hawthorne |
"Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe" "Young Goodman Brown" |
-had planned for these and other stories to be part of a volume entitled The Story Teller in which the title character wandered about New England telling his stories in dramatic circumstances |
| Mark Twain | Huckleberry Finn |
-detailed depictions of people and surroundings -use of dialect |
| William Dean Howells | ||
| Ambrose Bierce | ||
| Henry James |
-invented the narrative technique of becoming "invisible," pulling the narrator out of the story |
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| Sarah Orne Jewett | Country of the Pointed Firs |
-realistic portrayals of Maine people and villages; optimistic portrayals of women's fortitude in the face of a harsh life - see narration in Country of the Pointed Firs |
| Kate Chopin | The Awakening |
-termed local colorist -realist |
| Mary Wilkins Freeman |
-naturalist; pessimistically depicted realities of constraints on women
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| Frank Norris | McTeague | |
| Hamlin Garland | Main Travelled Roads | |
| Stephen Crane | The Red Badge of Courage | |
| Jack London | ||
| Theodore Dreiser | Sister Carrie | |
| Willa Cather | "Old Mrs. Harris" | -narrative point of view similaiar to Jewett's "A White Heron" |
| Sherwood Anderson | Winesberg, Ohio |
-collection of short stories about one town, similiar toCountry -non-linear narrative structure; all stories relate to each other |