... RESISTANCE TO CIVIL GOVERNMENT. The AGE OF REALISM, from 1835-1910, explained why ordinary people behave the way they do. Realistic novelists often relied on the emerging sciences of human and animal behavior-biology, psychology, and sociology-as well as on their own insights and observations. The most well-known writer of this time was Mark Twain, complimented for one of the most ... ...

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