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  2. 19th century in literature - Wikipedia

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    It is a primary example of nineteenth-century realism's role in the naturalization of the burgeoning capitalist marketplace. William Dean Howells was the first American author to bring a realist aesthetic to the literature of the United States. His stories of 1850s Boston upper-crust life are highly regarded among scholars of American fiction.

  3. Category:19th-century British writers - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:19th-century Black British writers and Category:19th-century British male writers and Category:19th-century British women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.

  4. Category:19th-century American writers - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:19th-century African-American writers and Category:19th-century American male writers and Category:19th-century Native American writers and Category:19th-century American women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.

  5. Victorian literature - Wikipedia

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    The 19th century is considered by some the Golden Age of English Literature, especially for British novels. [1] In the Victorian era , the novel became the leading literary genre in English. English writing from this era reflects the major transformations in most aspects of English life, from scientific, economic, and technological advances to ...

  6. Decadent movement - Wikipedia

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    The 1878 Pornokratès by Belgian artist Félicien Rops. The Decadent movement (from the French décadence, lit. ' decay ') was a late 19th-century artistic and literary movement, centered in Western Europe, that followed an aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality.

  7. Category:19th-century writers - Wikipedia

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    19th-century indigenous writers of the Americas (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "19th-century writers" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.

  8. 19th-century French literature - Wikipedia

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    French literature from the first half of the century was dominated by Romanticism, which is associated with such authors as Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, père, François-René de Chateaubriand, Alphonse de Lamartine, Gérard de Nerval, Charles Nodier, Alfred de Musset, Théophile Gautier and Alfred de Vigny. Their influence was felt in theatre ...

  9. Category:19th-century English writers - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:19th-century English male writers and Category:19th-century English women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.