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Realism was a movement that encompassed the entire country, or at least the Midwest and South
American Realism began as a reaction to and a rejection of Romanticism, with its emphasis on emotion, imagination, and the individual
The movement was centered in fiction, particularly the novel. It attempted fidelity to real life, or "actuality," in its representation. The realist concerns himself with the here and now
Common Themes and Elements in Realism
Pragmatism
literature of the common-place
attempts to represent real life
ordinary people--poor and middle class
ordinary speech in dialect--use of vernacular
recent or contemporary life
subject matter presented in an unidealized, unsentimentalized way
democratic function of literature
social criticism--effect on audience is key
presents indigenous American life
importance of place--regionalism, "local color"
sociology and psychology