Across
- 4. The American Regionalism movement was vital in _______ the country after the Civil War by creating bonds between the regions.
- 7. The Civil War and ______ were factors in creating the American Regionalism movement.
- 9. Sarah Orne ______ grew up in the rural town of South Berwick, Maine.
- 11. Some regionalist authors contributed to American realism by describing the varied conditions of American life in a ______ style
- 12. A big theme throughout the story is that ______ ruins children’s innocence, community, and trust.
- 14. A continuing style that helped greatly to ________ the short story among American readers
Down
- 1. The Civil War helped create a national ______.
- 2. The dramatic changes industrialization brought to society caused Jewett to romanticize the peaceful life of the _______.
- 3. When Jewett’s chronic sickness prevented her from continuing to study medicine, she dedicated herself to ______.
- 5. Jewett worried that the migration from the countryside to manufacturing towns would disrupt rural communities and ______ people from their natural environments.
- 6. Informs of the ______ through an area’s past, present, and future perspectives.
- 8. A transitional style that possesses works that detail a specific people’s features (religion, dialect, history, customs) shaped by their region, usually referring to the West and Midwest.
- 10. Jewett published over _____ novels and short story collections.
- 13. Jewett died of a _____ in 1909 in the small Maine town where she was born.
- 15. Regionalism originates in the post-Civil war era, but many critics locate its origins in the ______ period