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Anxiety of Influence |
Regionalism and Realism
Virgil's Georgics: Primus ego in patriam mecum . . . deducam Musas.
(I shall be the first, if I live, to bring the Muse into my Country.)
Authors of Regionalism: Mark Twain, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin and Stephen Crane.
Naturalism: this is a more specific literary definition of realism. Have you heard of it before? Can you first make a connection to the scientific connotation of the word?