Realism

= Characteristics: =
 * = Uncover truths; explore the ugliness of America. =
 * = Concerned with social change like worker's rights. =
 * = Focus on real, everyday life and events that were ordinary and typical. =
 * = Celebrates the individual. =
 * = Rejects imagination. =
 * = Interest in the scientific method; de-emphasis on mysticism. =
 * = View of nature as powerful and indifferent beyond man's control. =

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= WRITERS: =

= @L. Frank Baum =

= @Rebecca Harding Davis =

= @William Dean Howells =

= @Henry James =

= @Upton Sinclair =

= @John Steinbeck =

Page updated 8/01/15.