ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Realism’s emphasis on detachment, objectivity, and accurate observation, its lucid but restrained criticism of social environment and mores, and the humane understanding that underlay its moral judgments became an integral part of the fabric of the modern novel during the height of that form’s development.

Detailed explanation-2: -Realism is the post civil war literary movement between 1865-1900. Realism directly opposes the previous movement Romanticism.

Detailed explanation-3: -Realism focused on the truthful treatment of the common, average, everyday life. Realism focuses on the immediate, the here and now, the specific actions and their verifiable consequences. Realism seeks a one-to-one relationship between representation and the subject. This form is also known as mimesis.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Realist movement in French art flourished from about 1840 until the late nineteenth century, and sought to convey a truthful and objective vision of contemporary life.