Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literary Time Periods Chart (Pdf)
This chart features the six American Literary Time Periods: Puritan Times (to 1750), Rationalism/Age of Enlightenment (1750-1850), Romanticism (1800-1850), Realism (1850-1900), Modernism (1900-1950), and Contemporary/Postmodernism...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Minister's Charge by William D. Howells
This is the complete text of the novel "The Minister's Charge" by William D. Howells.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Real Survival Skills
Learn about process analysis, writing procedurals texts, the steps of the writing process, and cause and effect in this unit. Also, examine patterns of organization in writing. A handy chart shows common organizational patterns which...
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Charles Willson Peale: Staircase Group
The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents information, an image, and audio on the painting "The Staircase Group" by the 18th century American painter Charles Willson Peale.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Realism
Brief notes about the art movement Realism. Check this site out for more information, artist links and images.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Gustave Courbet
Artcyclopedia offers to Museums and Galleries on the internet that exhibit art work. On this page you will find links to Gustave Courbet. Many of Courbet's paintings contain nudes and may not be appropriate for grades 5-7.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Mount, Bargaining for a Horse
"Bargaining for a Horse" by William Sidney Mount is one of Mount's great works and a striking example of early nineteenth-century American genre painting at its best. View pictures of this painting and others by Mount and read about his...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Richard Caton Woodville, War News From Mexico
Richard Caton Woodville's "War News From Mexico" is an example of an American genre painting. It depicts a group of people reacting to news about the Mexican-American War. View pictures of this painting and read the backstory in this essay.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Manet's Olympia
How much do you know about the painting Olympia by Edouard Manet? Find out by answering this four-question multiple-choice and true/false quiz. Check each answer before moving to the next question. Hints are available for each question.
iCivics
I Civics: Machiavelli Mini Lesson
Look into the ideas and writings of the Italian thinker and politician, Niccolo Machiavelli (1429-1527).
British Library
British Library: Jane Eyre: Discovering Literature Resources
Students will explore contextual background on governesses, orphans, and the 19th-century woman, alongside contemporary reviews of the novel and Charlotte Bronte's fair copy manuscript. [PDF]
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians the Novel
These articles answer the following questions about novels between 1832-1880: From Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell to George Eliot, how did the writers of this period use fantasy, realism, sensationalism, and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Courbet, the Stonebreakers
"The Stonebreakers" by Gustave Courbet seems to lack the basics of art (things like a composition that selects and organizes, aerial perspective and finish) and as a result, it feels more "real". View a picture and read a description in...
Boston College
Boston College: 19th Century Painting
This site, which is provided for by the Boston College, is an index for artists during the 19th century.
Cengage Learning
Houghton Mifflin College: Eugene O'neill
The site is devoted to the study of "The Hairy Ape." The questions are very good and related links are embedded in the text.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Freud, Lucian
A brief biography on Lucian Freud discusses his paintings and accomplishments. Also includes thumbnail images of some of his paintings.
Georgetown University
Georgetown University: William Dean Howells (1837 1920)
This site provides a commentary on the writing style and works of William Dean Howells.
University of Virginia
Electronic Labyrinth: Realism and the Realist Novel
Realist novels were/are written to show life "as is." This article discusses that, and gives links to other related sites.
University of Houston
University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 702: Trompe L'oeil
A short lecture on trompe l'oeil in art that introduces the concept of realism turned to visual deception in artwork. It explores the great divide in theory between Plato and Aristotle which serves as an epistemological backdrop to the...
Victorian Web
The Victorian Web: Realism
This Victorian Web site defines realism as used in literature and as a "nineteenth-century movement that believed novelists and painters should concentrate on describing the physical, material details of life."
Other
Bright Ring Publishing: Thomas Eakins
Here is a gesture drawing activity which looks at the art of Thomas Eakins.
Other
Electric Gallery: Abstract Realism Collections
This site includes the works of many realist artists. However, these paintings are more modern "abstract realism" rather than 19th century pieces.
Other
Richard R. Gandy Gallery of Realist Art
A gallery by Richard R. Gandy of Classical Realist art. Includes a good list of artists and has good images and information about works of art.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: Later National Literature: Pi
This encyclopedia, "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature" provided by Bartleby.com, includes some information in Book III (Later National Literature) about realism as related to the writer Poe. Find this information...