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The 64 pages that link to Literary realism, each with the reason it gives.

• Naturalism (literature)Narrower topic: Naturalism extends realism’s attention to everyday life while stressing forces that constrain human choice.

• RealismNarrower topic: The visual movement shared its name and social ambitions with a broader literary shift.

• Victorian literatureNarrower topic: Realism offers a broad framework for the era’s attention to everyday life and social structures.

• Émile ZolaRelated: Zola’s novels expanded realism’s social scope through systematic attention to heredity and environment.

• NovelRelated: The novel’s scale made detailed depictions of everyday society especially powerful.

• American literatureRelated: Realist writers turned American social change into subjects for fiction.

• Gustave FlaubertNarrower topic: Flaubert’s attention to everyday detail and social convention helped define French realism.

• The CossacksNarrower topic: The novella’s attention to work, custom, and motivation anticipates Tolstoyan realism.

• Henry JamesNarrower topic: James developed his fiction within realism while extending it toward psychological interpretation.

• Literary FictionRelated: Its close observation of everyday life is one established route into literary fiction.

• MimesisBroader topic: Realist fiction uses plausible characters and settings to imitate lived experience.

• Fantasy literatureCompared with: Its commitment to plausible everyday experience opposes fantasy’s departures from ordinary reality.

• Ivan TurgenevRelated: Turgenev’s restrained, closely observed fiction is a leading example of Russian realism.

• Samuel RichardsonRelated: Richardson’s attention to ordinary domestic pressures helped expand fiction’s claims to represent lived experience.

• Honoré de BalzacRelated: Balzac’s detailed material world helped establish techniques later associated with literary realism.

• Domestic fictionNarrower topic: Realist attention to everyday circumstances supports domestic fiction's focus on ordinary experience.

• Madame BovaryNarrower topic: Flaubert turns provincial routines, money, and desire into the novel’s central materials.

• Vissarion BelinskyRelated: Belinsky argued that truthful representation of Russian life gave literature its distinctive power.

• George EliotNarrower topic: Eliot used realistic settings and motives to make ordinary provincial life carry complex moral weight.

• The OutsidersRelated: Hinton’s contemporary setting and direct depiction of teenage hardship distinguish the novel from idealized youth fiction.

• DublinersCompared with: Dubliners uses detailed everyday settings while its epiphanies complicate straightforward social description.

• Literary genreBroader topic: Realism illustrates how a mode can become a defining genre convention.

• Psychological novelNarrower topic: Psychological fiction often uses realist settings to make inward conflict legible through everyday life.

• Social novelNarrower topic: Social novels often use realist settings and characters to make structural pressures concrete.

• Tom WolfeRelated: Wolfe adapted realist attention to social detail in both journalism and fiction.

• William Dean HowellsNarrower topic: Howells championed this mode as an alternative to romanticized fiction.

• The CorrectionsRelated: The novel’s domestic settings and recognizable social pressures support its satirical realism.

• John le CarréRelated: His procedural detail and morally mixed characters helped make espionage feel like a credible social world.

• Jonathan FranzenNarrower topic: Franzen’s novels use realistic detail to connect private choices with social structures.

• Local colorRelated: Realist attention to everyday experience supports local color’s detailed social observation.

• American literary realismNarrower topic: American realism adapts this broader movement to the country's regions, institutions, and social conflicts.

• Edith WhartonNarrower topic: Wharton used realistic detail to expose the pressures beneath elite manners.

• Romance (genre)Compared with: Romance favors exceptional events and idealized figures where realism stresses everyday probability.

• Sherwood AndersonRelated: Anderson’s fiction develops realism through fragmented form and heightened attention to private feeling.

• Iris MurdochRelated: Murdoch's novels use realistic social worlds to examine how imagination shapes moral judgment.

• James WoodRelated: His criticism repeatedly tests how fiction makes invented lives feel real.

• Bjørnstjerne BjørnsonRelated: His later drama engaged contemporary social conflicts rather than idealized historical subjects.

• Bolesław PrusNarrower topic: Prus’s detailed settings and social observation place much of his fiction within this mode.

• John UpdikeNarrower topic: Updike’s attention to physical detail and ordinary life makes realism a useful frame for his fiction.

• LiteratureRelated: Realist techniques make invented worlds resemble recognizable social experience.

• Benito Pérez GaldósNarrower topic: Its methods shaped Galdós’s depictions of everyday life and social conflict.

• Dirty realismNarrower topic: Dirty realism narrows realism toward unglamorous routines and material hardship.

• Halldór LaxnessNarrower topic: His rural novels use realist description while retaining the scale and cadence of older Icelandic storytelling.

• Lao SheNarrower topic: His fiction uses realistic settings and characters to expose social pressures.

• Stephen CraneNarrower topic: Crane’s naturalist style grew from realism’s commitment to credible settings and ordinary experience.

• BuddenbrooksRelated: Its close attention to business, manners, and domestic life anchors the family’s decline in everyday routines.

• Michel HouellebecqRelated: His realist settings anchor provocative claims about contemporary institutions and behavior.

• Anthony TrollopeRelated: Trollope’s sustained attention to everyday institutions became a touchstone for readers of realist fiction.

• Bret Easton EllisCompared with: Ellis’s unreliable narration and stylized excess often unsettle realist expectations.

• Eça de QueirósNarrower topic: Queirós adapted realist description to expose the institutions and habits of Portuguese society.