1. Realism in the fiction in the novel
... the final collapse of the economic and ideological structure of feudalism, realism took a great step forward, from the depiction of everyday life and manners to depiction of social existence. The works of the early realist writers, great and small writers like Richardson, Defoe, Smollett, Fielding, Swift, Steele, Diderot, Goethe, Lessing, Mersier and Marivaux, and many, many others-enable us to determine ... more convincing his reproduction of reality is, for he has not only perceived it emotionally, but has interpreted it and generalized it as well. The intellectual element that permea...
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