Chapter 6: From Classic Realism to Modernism and Postmodernism 1. Introduction • Fiction is a generic term and includes short stories, novellas and novels. • Fiction is the kind of imaginative literature many people are most familiar with; it is the form that sells best, is publicised most widely, and is usually the most straightforward to read. • We will be attempting to define some of the characteristics of fiction writing by focusing mainly on novels written in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. • The reason for choosing novels written in the last two centuries is that the nineteenth century is the period when novel writing really flourished as a literary form , and when the style is known as ‘ classic realism ’ dominated British fiction. George Eliot , Mrs Gaskell and Anthony Trollop e are exam...
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