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
The Call of the Wild
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (Signet Classics)
Of Mice and Men
L'Assommoir
The Jungle
La Bête humaine
The Age of Innocence
O Cortiço
The Fortune of the Rougons (Les Rougon-Macquart, #1)
The Belly of Paris (Les Rougon-Macquart, #3)
The House of Mirth
Gustave Flaubert
“ My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real. ”
― Gustave Flaubert

Daniel C. Dennett
“ But recently I have learned from discussions with a variety of scientists and other non-philosophers (e.g., the scientists participating with me in the Sean Carroll workshop on the future of naturalism) that they lean the other way: free will, in their view, is obviously incompatible with naturalism, with determinism, and very likely incoherent against any background, so they cheerfully insist that of course they don't have free will, couldn’t have free will, but so what? It has nothing to do wi ...more ”
― Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained

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