American Literature
critics associated with realism (notably W. D. Howells) were based in New England. Among the Midwestern writers considered realists would be
Joseph Kirkland, E. W. Howe, and Hamlin Garland; the Southern writer John W. DeForest's Miss Ravenal's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty is
often considered a realist novel, too. Characteristics:Renders reality closely and in comprehensive detail. Selective presentation of reality with an
emphasis on verisimilitude, even at the expense of a wellmade plot. Character is more important than action and plot; complex ethical choices are
often the subject. Characters appear in their real complexity of temperament and motive; they are in explicable relation to nature, to each other, to
their social class, to their own past. Class is important; the novel has traditionally served the interests and aspirations of an insurgent middle class.
Events will usually be plausible
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