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  1. Naturalism is a literary movement beginning in the late nineteenth century, similar to literary realism in its rejection of Romanticism, but distinct in its embrace of determinism, detachment, scientific objectivism, and social commentary. Literary naturalism emphasizes observation and the scientific method in the fictional portrayal of reality.

  2. The genre also draws on a much older literary tradition of biographical collections of exemplary women. This list includes biobibliographical dictionaries, in which biographical detail is provided alongside bibliographical information.

  3. t. e. The academic discipline of women's writing is a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their sex, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from ...

  4. Literature. The term naturalism describes a type of literature that attempts to apply scientific principles of objectivity and detachment to its study of human beings. Unlike realism, which focuses on literary technique, naturalism implies a philosophical position.

  5. Naturalism (NATCH-rull-ihz-uhm) is a late 19th-century literary movement in which writers focused on exploring the fundamental causes for their characters’ actions, choices, and beliefs.

  6. Abstract. This article examines the relationship between women writers and naturalism, or, more specifically, the ways in which late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American women writers wrote naturalistic fiction. It focuses broadly on three questions.

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  8. Jun 27, 2018 · NATURALISM, a literary mode developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, characterizedby detailed description, scientific and sociological themes, an objective, documentary quality, and a deterministic philosophy. The term "naturalism" is especially, but not exclusively, applied to novels.

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