Dickens has been the overwhelming influence on postwar fiction ... to human stories, to a modern kind of realism, and a love affair with the more dominant contemporary strain-the wildly multiple and ...

Henry James was praised for his psychological realism, Dickens condemned for his cardboard caricatures who danced towards you demanding attention with their physical traits, their noses and ...

Dickens felt the opposite ... the detective story—Bleak House stands as a landmark of Victorian realism, yet also opened the gates toward future literary experiments. In its critique of an ...

for there continued an extraordinary confusion as to what a realist really was. Brunetiere actually discussed Rhoda Broughton in the same category as Flaubert, Zola and Maupassant, while Dickens ...

Although Dickens was the greatest of Victorian novelists, his work did not flow in the same direction as the strongest literary current of the period, which was toward greater and greater realism ...

A biography that rivals Dickens’ novels for its rich cast of characters, sprawling plot and unpredictable swerves between realism and romance. Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit (1999), by ...