See also domestic and family novels, fiction, history of children’s literature, short stories ‘Realism’ or ‘social realism’ in children’s books refers to the use of themes and characters close to preoccupations in...

Realism in the visual arts and literature is the depiction of subjects as they appear in everyday life, without embellishment or interpretation. The term is also used to describe works of art which, in revealing a truth, may emphasize the ugly or...

Realism and Aboriginal art are both terms that have been subject to much contestation. In the field of painting they each describe a bewildering array of practices. To think about the realism of Aboriginal art, then, will not be a way of arriving...

Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature. By Alison Byerly. (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 12) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. x + 231 pp. [pound]34;$59.95. This is a splendid book. It is about...

Throughout his elegant and compact sequence of espionage novels set in the Europe of the 1930’s and 40’s—The Foreign Correspondent is the ninth—Alan Furst has been trying to marry romance and dread. This is not something that would have occurred to Eric Ambler who, in...

Throughout his elegant and compact sequence of espionage novels set in the Europe of the 1930’s and 40’s— The Foreign Correspondent is the ninth—Alan Furst has been trying to marry romance and dread. This is not something that would have occurred to Eric Ambler who,...

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 Fedor Dostoevsky, among others.

In the following essay, Johnson contends that a shift in Chekhov's narrative perspective during the late period of his career added greater depth and complexity to his short stories.

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.

Argues that realist writing inevitably establishes a frame of reference of the familiar, but then moves beyond it. Examines a number of literary works to support the assertion.

The American realists of the late 19th century were notably adept at creating deep, memorable characters --whether virtuous or villainous-- who are continuously developed throughout the tales in which they exist. Three such characters that were born of American realism are found in the novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain; Daisy Miller, by Henry James; and Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser