ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -For those engaged in serious literary circles, however, that period was full of upheaval. A literary civil war raged on between the camps of the romantics and the realists and later, the naturalists.

Detailed explanation-2: -Romanticism is fictional and deals with imagination while Realism is nonfictional deals with pragmatism. Romanticism on the other hand profusely played with the motions of emotions. As a literary movement, a school of philosophical thought and an artistic way of looking at everything differently.

Detailed explanation-3: -American Realism began as a reaction to and a rejection of Romanticism, with its emphasis on emotion, imagination, and the individual. The movement began as early as the 1830’s but reached prominence and held sway from the end of the Civil War to around the end of the nineteenth century.

Detailed explanation-4: -Realism revolted against the exotic subject matter and the exaggerated emotionalism and drama of the Romantic movement. Instead, it sought to portray real and typical contemporary people and situations with truth and accuracy, and not avoiding unpleasant or sordid aspects of life.

Detailed explanation-5: -What is Romanticism and Realism? Romanticism is a form of art and literature that doesn’t happen in real life. Realism is a form art and literature that tries to mimic real life.