Key Terms: World Literature

1660-1770

1780-1850

1850-1880

1880-__

Technological advancements (raised hopes), rapid urbanization, unprecedented increase in population, world more connected through advances in communication and transportations, marked decrease in influence of religion, triumph of the middle classes

Charles Dickens, Henry James, Dostoevsky

Term invented by Zola, programmatic, well-defined and coherent theory of fiction, rejecting will self-consciously.

"To a chemist nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as the chemist; he must abandon the subjective line: he must know that dung heaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones."

Drunkenness and madness--they break down a man's individual character; all forms of enthusiasm and ecstasy; the awareness that creation and destruction are inseparable.

Passionate, intense desire for something, (some suggest more often to a sexual desire).

Falling off from classic norms, usually associated with moral corruption

Outgrowth of romanticism, contains the idea of the end

Radical imbalance of opposing drives

The cult of the artist and of art the artist is a product of the progressive failure of sociopolitical ideals.

Revulsion of physical/human