Literary realism
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Literary realism is a movement and genre of literature that attempts to represent mundane and ordinary subject-matter in a faithful and straightforward way, avoiding grandiose or exotic subject-matter
Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish writer from the Canary Islands
Henry James
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Henry James was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in
Literary realism
…as a naturalist work. Other later American realists are John Steinbeck, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Edith Wharton and Henry James. Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) is the most prominent representative of 19th-century realism in fiction through the inclusion of specific detail and…
Portrait of Henry James by John Singer Sargent, 1913
Henry James, age 11, with his father, Henry James Sr. – 1854 daguerreotype by Mathew Brady
James, age 16
Copy of 1913 statue of Henry James by Francis Derwent Wood, displayed at Chelsea Library. (Original statue was stolen in 1992.)