Modern Literature

The realist novel, Romanticism, and the literary avant-gardes.

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1. Modern Literature

A survey of literature from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century, tracing the rise of the novel, the flowering of Romanticism, the ascendancy of Realism, and the birth of literary Modernism.