Lesson 9: The Civil War
Objectives
After successfully completing this lesson, you will be able to
- generally describe the historical background of American literature during the American Civil War era.
- discuss the ways in which circumstances and events of the Civil War era influenced its literature.
- identify and discuss the elements of realism, citing the presence of these elements in selected literary works.
- identify and discuss the elements of naturalism, citing the presence of these elements in selected literary works.
- identify the characteristics of spirituals, citing the presence of these characteristics in selected literary works.
- identify the elements of an autobiography.
- identify and discuss point of view, stream of consciousness, chronological order, and diction in Civil War literature.
- identify and discuss features of Civil War diaries, journals, and letters, including objective and subjective point of view.
