Naturalism

Naturalism was a mainly unorganized literary movement that sought to depict believable everyday reality, as opposed to such movements as Romanticism or Surrealism, in which subjects may receive highly symbolic, idealistic or even supernatural treatment.

Naturalism was an outgrowth of literary realism, a prominent literary movement in mid-19th-century France and elsewhere. Naturalistic writers were influenced by Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. They often believed that one's heredity and social environment largely determine one's character. Whereas realism seeks only to describe subjects as
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Thérèse Raquin
Germinal
Nana
Sister Carrie
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (Signet Classics)
The Call of the Wild
Of Mice and Men
L'Assommoir
La Bête humaine
The Belly of Paris (Les Rougon-Macquart, #3)
The Jungle
The Age of Innocence
The Fortune of the Rougons (Les Rougon-Macquart, #1)
The House of Mirth
Madame Bovary
Introduction to the Study of Insects by Donald Joyce BorrorThe Life-Story of Insects by George H. CarpenterInsects and their Plants by Fr. James M. SullivanThe Wonders of Instinct by Jean-Henri FabreSocial Life in the Insect World by Jean-Henri Fabre
Notable Books in Entomology
6 books — 4 voters
Coñodramas by Moderna de PuebloUna temporada en Tinker Creek by Annie DillardWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauStorms by Tom SchofieldLa invención de la naturaleza by Andrea Wulf
Literatura naturalista
19 books — 5 voters

Life after Death in a Nutshell by Else ByskovThe Best Available Evidence for the Survival of Human Conscio... by Else ByskovKey Life Lessons from Martinus, the Modern Mystic by Else ByskovThe Earth, the Universe and God in a Cosmic Perspective by Else ByskovThe Downfall of Marriage by Else Byskov
Philosophical atheism
129 books — 26 voters
Bauhaus by Jeannine FiedlerWild by Graham BoyntonThe Indiscipline of Painting /anglais by CLARCK MARTINFinding Vincent by Les FurnanzAction Painting by Robert Fleck
Art -‘isms’ of the 20th Century
102 books — 4 voters

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonMiddlemarch by George EliotMcTeague by Frank Norris
Naturalism and Realism
128 books — 22 voters
Enlightenment Now by Steven PinkerThe Rational Optimist by Matt RidleyThe Birth of Plenty  by William J. BernsteinThe Moral Arc by Michael ShermerThe Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
Polemics for Progress
14 books — 6 voters

Bangambiki Habyarimana
Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world
Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

In China we can criticize Darwin, but not the government; in America, you can criticize the government, but not Darwin!
Jun-yuan Chen

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