Naturalism

Naturalism was a mainly unorganized literary movement that sought to depict believable everyday reality, as opposed to such movements as Romanticism or Surrealism, in which subjects may receive highly symbolic, idealistic or even supernatural treatment.

Naturalism was an outgrowth of literary realism, a prominent literary movement in mid-19th-century France and elsewhere. Naturalistic writers were influenced by Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. They often believed that one's heredity and social environment largely determine one's character. Whereas realism seeks only to describe subjects as
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Thérèse Raquin
Nana
Germinal
Sister Carrie
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (Signet Classics)
The Call of the Wild
Of Mice and Men
La Bête humaine
The Jungle
The Age of Innocence
The Belly of Paris (Les Rougon-Macquart, #3)
The House of Mirth
The Fortune of the Rougons (Les Rougon-Macquart, #1)
Walden or, Life in the Woods
Madame Bovary
Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.
Anaxagoras

Gustave Flaubert
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
Gustave Flaubert

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