... literature that represents events and social conditions as they actually are without idealization involved is called realism. One of the most important realists was Gustav Flaubert of France. His novel Madame Bovary described with extraordinary attention to detail the life of an ordinary woman. In Great Britain, Mary Anne Evans wrote realistic novels under the name George Elliot. In Middlemarch, considered her ... ...

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