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    Naturalism was a late 19th/early 20th century movement influenced by scientific advancements and materialistic philosophies of the time. It viewed humans as products of heredity and environment, subject to determinism within an indifferent universe, belonging to the realm of nature. Naturalist literature employed objectivism and scientific detachment to depict the unpleasant and often pessimistic aspects of human experience.

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    Naturalism

    LATE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH


    CENTURIES
    Some key points

     Heredity
     Environment
     Human beings as passive products
     Determinism
     Human beings as belonging to the realm of nature
     Universe as indifferent to human plight
    Background

     Scientific advancements (Biology in particular)


     Rationalistic and materialistic philosophies of the time
     Realism
     A reaction to romanticism
    Naturalist Literature

     Objectivism
     Scientific detachment, novelist as a scientist
     The unpleasant aspects of experience
     pessimism
    Jean Francois Millet
    Gleaners

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