Stry of higher and secondary specialized education of the republic of uzbekistan state university of world languages

Edith Wharton, a close friend of Henry James, also wrote realist novels about high society, novels highly critical of the position of women in that society. Her most famous works include The House of Mirth (1905), the story of Lily Bart, a socialite who slowly but surely loses her social position, and eventually, her life, as she fails to marry or inherit wealth, and The Age of Innocence (1920).
Regionalism: Regionalism was the most significant literary mode after the Civil War, fueled by an explosion in magazine publication, postwar curiosity about the different parts of the United States, and a sense of nostalgia for a rural past that always already seemed to be slipping away. In regionalist texts, setting is central. Regionalist narratives document the unique ways of life of rural communities, offering readers distinctive visions of life in the South, New England, the Midwest, and the West. Regionalist fictions are invested in offering readers a realistic snapshot of the language, customs, habits, landscape, and social life of rural America. They often present characters as types, as representatives of the traits of a community or region. Though they are deeply invested in the local, regionalist stories are often narrated by outsiders who differ in class status or place of origin from the locals. This distance between the narrator and the other characters, as well as the fact that many of the readers of regionalism were urban, has led some scholars to contend that regionalism exploits the locations it represents, selling them to more privileged audiences as a kind of literary tourism.
Bret Harte, a groundbreaking regionalist, offered readers a romanticized vision of life during the California Gold Rush in “The Luck of Roaring Camp” (1868). This story, of rough-and-tumble but warm-hearted miners who try to raise an orphaned baby until a flood sweeps them away, made Harte an international sensation and signaled the acceptance of regionalism by the literary establishment.