What is the time of this period?
Between 1870 and 1910, there were two main movements that took place in American literature: realism and naturalism.
What happened?
Realism attempted to depict things as they actually are, which contrasted with the previously dominant aesthetic of romanticism. Naturalism attempted to depict things realistically, but focused on determinism, or the inability of people to resist their circumstances.
Who was in that period?
Realism as a broad movement in art and literature survived until the end of the nineteenth century, but it changed in the 1870s, when the artist Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848–1884) introduced a form of painting that today is generally referred to as naturalism.
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