Realism Summary

In the following essay, originally published in 1886, Hearn decries the "revolting realism" prevalent among the works of his contemporary writers in France. We have frequently drawn a... Read more

In the following excerpt, Steele analyzes the setting of L'Education sentimentale in order to examine the problematic nature of representation in this Realist text. The setting of L '... Read more

In the following excerpt, Weinberg reviews the basic tenets of, and the vehement reaction against, French Realism of the mid-nineteenth century. To state adequately the history of realistic theory,... Read more

In the following essay, Kelly examines the critical reaction to the rise of both photography and the Realist aesthetic in mid-nineteenth century France. In May 1841, two years after François... Read more

In the following essay, Becker investigates the works of the Goncourt brothers, highlighting their innovations in the techniques of realism and overall importance to the Realist movement. Of all th... Read more

In the following essay, originally delivered as a lecture in 1977, White examines affinities between the realistic style of Flaubert's Sentimental Education and Marx's historical and ide... Read more

In the following excerpt, Sullivan categorizes Guy de Maupassant's short fiction. 1. Introduction The world created by a short-story writer has its own coherence, its own identifying charact... Read more

In the following essay, Stipa explores the literary symbolism underlying the serving-maid's obsessive infatuation with a dead parrot in Flaubert's story “Un Cœur simple.&#x... Read more

In the following essay, Kagan-Kans provides an overview of the development of Russian realism during the period from 1850 to 1880, focusing on the short fiction of Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, and Fedo... Read more

In the following essay, Stone provides an overview of the short fiction of Anthony Trollope. Anthony Trollope's stories constitute a substantial and substantially ignored portion of his prod... Read more

In the following essay, Current-Garcia discusses the emergence of a realist aesthetic in American short fiction of the mid-nineteenth century. By the 1850s many other American writers beside the So... Read more

In the following essay, Hocks explores the international theme—the contrast between Americans and Europeans—in Henry James's short fiction. In James studies it is sometimes cus... Read more

In looking at the realist frame of reference for Gissing's New Grub Street what the reader expected to receive was a story of literary endeavour and romantic interest. The structure of the n... Read more