... conditioned the inner world of their heroes, their way of thinking and behaving, and to see the sources of social evil that were having such a destructive effect on the human personality. Empiricism is the most significant feature of the early realist descriptions of environment. It is to be seen also in the presentation of the psychology of the heroes, who are ... of literature which most fully reflects this individualist and innovating reorientation. Previous literary forms had reflected the general tendency of their cultures to make conformity to traditional practice the major test o...

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