Find links to these resources about American literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from this directory.

Detailed overview defines realism, lays out its basic tenets, and explains its difference from Romanticism and naturalism.

Learn about this literary movement that was best characterized by Flaubert and Ibsen during the 19th century.

Essay from this resource about the Victorians offers an explanation of the realist movement in literature.

About.com's guide to literature offers this set of links to resources about American realism.

Encyclopedia offers a modest introduction to realism along with links to profiles of writers and an overview of its cousin, naturalism.

Find a brief encyclopedic overview of what defined realism in literature and which authors best exemplified the movement.

Modest guide to this literary mode offers a list of the major tenets of realism and an explanation of its relationship to Romanticism.

Overview points out the basic characteristics that make up realism, what were its major advantages, and what were its biggest problems.

Find out what social forces helped bring about the realist movement, how it was expressed in literature, and who was expressing it.