Facts about Realism Literary Movement

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   Henrik Ibsen's 1879 play A Doll's House shocked audiences by depicting a middle-class marriage with psychological realism, establishing the realism literary movement's influence on drama across Europe.

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   William Dean Howells championed the realism literary movement in America during the 1880s as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, publishing works by authors like Henry James and Sarah Orne Jewett.

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   George Eliot's Middlemarch, published serially between 1871 and 1872, became one of the realism literary movement's greatest achievements by weaving together multiple interconnected storylines within a provincial English town.

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   French author Émile Zola documented working-class life in his 20-novel Rougon-Macquart cycle between 1871 and 1893, pioneering naturalism as an extension of realism literary movement principles.

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   Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, published serially between 1865 and 1869, exemplified realism literary movement principles through its integration of historical events with intimate psychological portraits of fictional characters.

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   Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie Humaine comprised nearly 100 novels and stories written between 1829 and 1850, establishing the realism literary movement's foundation through interconnected character narratives.

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   Gustave Flaubert spent 5 years writing Madame Bovary, a cornerstone of the realism literary movement published in 1857.

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