1. Realism in the fiction in the novel
... for. Most critics give the dates 1850's to 1880's as the dates for the strongest examples of Realism in Western literature. Whereas the age of the Romantics valued the exceptional, the genius, and the uncommon individual, the age of Realism values members of the middle class. While the age of the Romantics valued the contribution of the genius and imagination of the writer/poet, the Realists wanted to de-emphasize the contribution of the writer and thought writers ... , and indeed as more likely to be arrived at by a departure from it. The novel is the form of literature which most fully...
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