The+Literature+of+Urban+America

==__​The Literature of Urban America   __ ==

Authors and Books

 * **Mark Twain**- was a southern writer who wrote //Huckleberry Finn// and //Tom Sawyer//. He wrote these books about an older more natural world in response to the new industrial civilization.
 * [[image:mark_twain.jpg width="256" height="305"]][[image:ad_hf.jpg width="212" height="305"]][[image:tom-sawyer.jpg width="216" height="306"]]
 * Pictured: Mark Twain, Illistration of Huckleberry Finn, A Version of //Tom Sawyer//
 * **Stephen Crane**- wrote //The Red Badge of Courage// and //Maggie: A Girl of the Streets//. The novel, //The Red Badge of Courage//, was written to show the cruelty of the Civil War. It is a story about a boy overcoming his fears and becoming a war hero. In a different light there is //Maggie: A Girl of the Streets.//This was written to depict urban poverty and life in the slum. This book pushed to re-create urban social reality. It was a movement toward realism.
 * [[image:stephen-crane.jpg width="220" height="272"]][[image:maggie.jpg width="201" height="275"]] [[image:the_red_badge_of_courage.jpg width="190" height="272"]]
 * Pictured: Stephen Crane, A Verison of //The Red Badge of Courage//, A Verison of //Maggie:a girl of the streets//
 * **Theodore Dreiser**- Writer of //An American Tradegy// and //Sister Carrie//. //An American Tradegy// is about a boy and his life story. The name is truely fitting because throughout the book this boy is followed by tradegy. //Sister Carrie//, it is a story about a girl who realizes the American Dream when she moves to a big city. These books focused on social dislocations and injustices of the present rather then the traditions of earlier times.
 * [[image:theodore_d.jpg]][[image:an_american_tragedy.jpg width="223" height="302"]][[image:sister_carrie.jpg width="188" height="304"]]
 * Pictured:Theodore Dreiser, A Verison of //An American Tradgedy//, A Verison of //Sister Carrie//
 * **Frank Norris**- author of //The Octopus//. This book told of the struggle between wheat farmers and railroad interests in California. He wrote this to show the opression of America's poor.
 * [[image:frank_norris.jpg width="227" height="315"]][[image:octo.jpg width="198" height="318"]]
 * Pictured:Frank Norris, A Version of the Octopus
 * **Upton Sinclair**- captured readers with his reviting stories, such as //The Jungle//, this was about the corruption of capitalism. //The Jungle// talked about the American meatpacking industry, which in the 1900's was unsanitary. It promoted legislation to be passed by the federal government to deal with these issues.
 * [[image:upton-sinclair.jpg]][[image:jungle.jpg width="198" height="290"]][[image:meathouse.jpg width="287" height="286"]]
 * Pictured: Upton Sinclair, A Version of //The Jungle//, A meatpacking industry
 * **Kate Choplin**- wrote a contraversal novel called //The Awakening//, which was about a woman who left her husband and kids to live a self fulfilling life. She was greatly scrutinized for her topic. It was a revolutionary idea for a woman to even consider leaving her husband.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[[image:Kate_Chopin.jpg]][[image:the_a.jpg width="195" height="300"]]
 * Pictured: Kate Choplin, A Verison of //The Awakening//
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**William Dean Howells**- wrote //The Rise of Silas Lapham.// The book talked about the shallowness and corruption in the typical American's life.
 * <span style="color: #2277fc; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[[image:william_dean.jpg width="256" height="348"]][[image:the_rise_of.jpg width="210" height="350"]]
 * Pictured: William Howells, A Verison of //The Rise of Silas Lapham//
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Henry Adams**- a historian who wrote an autobiography called //The Education of Henry Adams//. It talked about him living in a society that he couldn't relate to, but was required to live in.
 * <span style="color: #2277fc; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[[image:Henry_Adams.jpg width="184" height="261"]]<span style="color: #2277fc; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[[image:the_education.jpg width="216" height="267"]]
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Pictured: Henry Adams, A Verison of //The Education of Henry Adams//
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Henry James**-wrote many novels including: //The American//, //Portrait of a Lady//, and //The Ambassadors//. They were all realistic novel about the modern, industrial civilzations, mainly about America.
 * <span style="color: #2277fc; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2277fc; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[[image:henry_james.jpg width="232" height="319"]] [[image:the_american.jpg width="216" height="325"]][[image:ambass.jpg width="206" height="332"]][[image:portrait.jpg width="204" height="338"]]
 * Pictured: Henry James, A Verison of //The American//, //The Ambassadors//, and //The Portrait of a Lady//

Importance
With America turning into an Urbanized nation, literature changed dramatically. With a revolutionary era begining, many writers wrote about these new changes, and there mosly negitive impact. Writers mainly told their side and ideals of the new America. The Urbanization of America

Impact
There were two major outcomes with the exspansion of literature.
 * 1) There was a creation of book clubs. These clubs were mainly formed by women, both white and african american.
 * 2) Discussing literature became a social experience for women because of the book clubs. These book clubs have continue into the present era.