The Romantic movement was born, and it dominated the literary scene until about the middle of the nineteenth century. It is at this point that we encounter realism as it is understood today.

What does this tell us about the nature of realism? In this beautifully illustrated and elegantly written book, Ruth Yeazell explores the nineteenth century's fascination with Dutch painting, as well ...

How did 'everything is everywhere' arise out of nineteenth century microbiology, and from Beijerinck's experimental and theoretical work in particular? What is the relationship of this principle ...

Belonging to the Realism artistic movement that flourished in the late 19th century, Chełmoński has far less international renown than artists like French modernist Édouard Manet. But that ...

He earned his BA and MA in English from Arizona State University. His writing appears in J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists and American Literary Realism. New essays are forthcoming ...

Tom Roberts researches Russian literature, cinema and intellectual history, specializing in the theory and practice of 19th-century literary realism. He is currently completing his first book, which ...