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Realism Timeline

1890´s

Historical Events:

  • National American Woman Suffrage Association founded (1890)
  • U.S. Supreme Court upholds the legality of segregation and the institutions of Jim Crow in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Literature Published under Realsim ideas:

Henry James, "The Real Thing" (1893), The Turn of the Screw (1898)

- Booker T. Washington, "Atlanta Exposition Address" (1895)

- Abraham Cahan, Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto (1896), "A Sweat-Shop Romance" (1898)

- Edith Wharton, "Souls Belated" (1899)

1900´s

Events:

  • international Workers of the World union founded (1905)
  • First radio broadcast from Plymouth, Massachusetts (1906)
  • Ford Model T goes into production (1908)

1910´s

Events:

  • World War I (1914-18)
  • United States enters World War I (1917)
  • Russian Revolution (1917)

1920´s

Major event in the 20´s:

  • Wall Street Crash begins Great Depression (1929)

Realism Art: George B. Luks, Hester Street, 1905, Brooklyn Museum

Realism Art Cont: John French Sloan, McSorley's Bar, 1912, Detroit Institute of Arts

The End

Literature in 20´s:

  • Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (1920)
  • - Anzia Yezierska, Hungry Hearts (1920), "The Lost 'Beautifulness' " (1920)
  • - Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy (1925)

Literature in 1910´s

  • - Sui Sin Far, Mrs. Spring Fragrance (1912)
  • - Henry Adams, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (1913), The Education of Henry Adams (1918)
  • - Abraham Cahan, The Rise of David Levinsky (1917)
  • - Anzia Yezierska, "The Fat of the Land" (1919)

Literture in the 1900´s

  • - Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie (1900), "Old Rogaum and His Theresa" (1901)
  • - Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery (1901)
  • - W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903), "The Talented Tenth" (1903)
  • - Henry James, "The Beast in the Jungle" (1903), "The Jolly Corner" (1909)
  • - Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth (1905)
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