A Real Look At Realism – Where Is It?

Considering their importance in literary history, there’s relatively little scholarship being done on realist authors. Postmodern suspicion of any claim to be able to represent reality is only part of the problem. “Realist works tend to be forthright and explicit, so there’s less of an overt challenge for scholars to ‘crack’ them. Nor is it that easy to get students to crack the novels.”