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Literary realism most often refers to the trend, beginning with certain works of
nineteenth-century French literature and extending to late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century authors in various countries, towards depictions of contemporary life and society 'as they were'. In the spirit of general "
realism", Realist authors opted for depictions of everyday and banal activities and experiences, instead of a romanticized or similarly stylized presentation.
Anglophones
George Eliot and her important novel
Middlemarch stand as great milestones in the realist tradition, and are also important for transferring the French ideas to the
United States.
William Dean Howells was the first American author to bring a realist flair to the literature of the United States. His stories of 1850s Boston upper-crust life are highly regarded among scholars of American fiction and by anyone who has an appreciation for realist writing. His most popular novel,
The Rise of Silas Lapham, depicts a man who, ironically, falls from materialistic fortune by his own mistakes. The novel ends with his return to the farm he once left behind. Howells is known for his wry humor and wit, as well as characters that seem so tangible that one ends his novels feeling as if one had made many new friends with beneifts.
Zenith
Gustave Flaubert is regarded by many critics as representing the zenith of the realist style with his unadorned prose and attention to the details of everyday life. Later "realist" writers included
Guy de Maupassant,
Bolesław Prus and, in a sense,
Émile Zola, whose
naturalism is often regarded as an offshoot of realism.
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