The second half of the 19th c. saw America becoming increasingly self-conscious at the very time regional writers began to write about its various aspects. American wanted to know what their country looked like, and how the varied races which made up their growing population lived and talked. It was the age of the first mappings and surveyings of the West; it was the age of the in which the rails of of the first transcontinental railroad had bound East and West.
Paraphrase:
In the second part on the 1800's Americans mindset changed. They wanted to know more about their countries diversed culture: what it looked liked, the races, et.
Citation:
Reuben, Paul. American Realism-A Brief Introduction. N.p., 2011. Web. 5 Feb 2012. <http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap5/5intro.html>.
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