... or romantic subjectivity. It is most often associated with the literary movement arising in France during the nineteenth century; primarily, it is a reaction against Romanticism's idealism ad subjectivity. The French writer Gustave Flaubert and Leo Tolstoy from Russia are examples of Realist writers. Realists wanted a true representation in literature of reality of contemporary life and manners (Lawall 837). In order for ... as a Realist, Flaubert is trying to represent the actual town, and not the idealized vision of what a town should look like. Through Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert...

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