Chris Hardy
History 8th period
Mrs. Stewart
Realism in American History
The late 1800s was a watershed moment in American History. The era of the Wild West was ending. The land in the Hesperian had been almost fully settled by the late 1800s and was in the process of becoming the bread basket that it is today. While iodine ear was ending the era of big business was in full swing. Monopolies and trusts were the standard of the late 1800s expanding their control and influence farthest beyond the shores of America. The common factor in these two bargonly is destruction of the environment. This destruction inspired realists like mark distich and Winslow Homer to accent nature with beauty and granger that entirely a realist could. These men attempted to stem the tide of environmental destruction by expressing how powerful it was. In no other instances is realism more prevalent then in the environmental movement in the late 1800s, Mark twains Memorable Midnight run into, and Winslow Homers Sunlight on the Coast.
Just as there are today men and women fought for the preservation of the environment. Intellectuals were weary of the optimism of economic liberalism and its say-so of social and economic advancement through laissez-faire capitalism.
They condemned the materialist fiat and obsession with technology, and were alarmed with the destructive capacity science. Particularly given(p) to the environment was the industrial threat to ecological systems or the environmental consequences of imperialism. An environmental utopianism arose with the formation of such groups as the Sierra Club, form in 1892 in the U.S. Some of the ideas of this movement meshed with that already prevalent realist movement.
In Mark Twains Memorable Midnight jazz two unnamed men are on an false expiation through London. They arrive at West Minster Abby where...
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