The Striking Sustainability of Literary Realism

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An exploration of the red line between traditional realism and contemporary realism, based on a comparison between George Eliot's Middlemarch and Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections & Freedom.

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Literary realism, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections, Freedom, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Hysterical realism, Crackpot realism, Condition of England Debate, Industrial Revolution

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