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Book Chapter
Realism from William Dean Howells to Edith Wharton
2020
Overview
This chapter offers an overview of the literary principles that made realism into the dominant literary movement in the late nineteenth century, including a commitment to capturing the meaning of ordinary life in the here and now, a focus on characterization and the difficult choices made by complex individuals, a sense of place imbued with an understanding of social and psychological meaning, and a language that is simple, honest, and natural. Howells is presented as the writer and critic who codified its basic principles as a theorist and exemplified its values as an author. Wharton is presented as the writer who brought realism into the twentieth century by exemplifying its potential as an art form capable of confronting feminist issues and expressing the alienation of an emerging modernism.
