1. Realism in the fiction in the novel
... writers opposed much of what the Romantics had stood 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 ... and an extraordinary range of experiences and coincidence. We move from the real world of everyday life into the non-r...
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