1. Realism in the fiction in the novel
... than in the sphere of the innermost workings of their minds and hearts. The reader was expected to divine the hero's inner life from his actions, for it was not so much personal as universal traits that were stressed in the character's psychology. The characters" spiritual life had not yet been submitted to deep, let alone many-sided, analysis in the realist prose of the eighteenth century. ... This sphere of personal life was not to be investigated until the nineteenth century. ... In early realism empiricism in the portrayal of reality went hand in hand with a pronounced ... ...
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