Criticism after Romanticism: Realism and Naturalism

An overview of some central ideas and movements in nineteenth-century criticism and aesthetics, after the heyday of Romanticism. This lecture centers on the development of the theory of realistic prose fiction, with Bulwer-Lytton, Henry James and William Dean Howells among others, and the fin-de-siècle Naturalist aesthetic exemplified in the theories of Zola.

Criticism after Romanticism:

Realism and Naturalism

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2802060

 

Number of Pages in PDF File: 13
Keywords: Aesthetics, Realism, History of Criticism, Prose fiction, Narratology, Zola, Henry James, Bulwer-Lytton, William Dean Howells,

 

 

eJournal Classifications (Date posted: June 30, 2016)

LIT Subject Matter eJournals      Literary Theory & Criticism eJournal - CMBO

PRN Subject Matter eJournals      Continental Philosophy eJournal - CMBO          PRN: Critical Theory (Topic) - CMBO

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