DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Tall Tale, Slave Narrative, Lewis Hine
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6 (re)framing post civil war america (re)framing post civil war america: civil war (1861-65, soldiers could send home their portraits with letters thanks to photography. It recorded the evolving social change: response to technological innovation, industrialization, urbanization, response to delevopments in natural schience (darwin) and philosophy (nietzsche, people wanted to witness real events, focusses on middle class realism: It depicts humans as subject to natural instincts/forces, as determined by milieu/society: stephen crane: "maggie: a girl of the streets, worldview: no choices in life. For example, it is an example of adventure fiction and it has also been regarded as juvenile fiction. Huck decides to go to hell for jim; he faces isolation and loneliness after jim was sold. Huck realizes the intrinsic worth of jim: why do you think has huck finn been called the epitome of an american character by critics? (consider the setting and the use of language).
