The greatest English realist of the time was Charles Dickens. Another critical realist was . Others are , , , and Thomas Hardy.

The realist novelists of the 18 th century include__

Thomas Hardy is the most representative realist in the later decades of the Victorian era, whose principal works are the ( ) novels, i.e., the novels describing the characters and environment of his native countryside. A: Bildungsroman B: character and environment C: realist D: modernist

( ), the greatest realist novelist of the 18th-century English literature, is also considered the father of the English novel.

The Canterbury Tales reflects the reality of the society in Chaucer’s time, making Chaucer a realist writer.

The 19th century produced the first English novelists, who fall into two groups-the sentimentalist novelists and the realist novelists. ( )

Both James Joyce and Virginia Woolf were ______writers. A: Imagist B: Critical Realist C: Romantic D: Stream-of-Consciousness

Jane Austen is one of the realist novelists. She drew vivid and realistic pictures of everyday life, of the country society in his novels. ( )

______ is the real founder of the realist novel in the history of English literature. In his novels, he gives a panaramic view of the life in the English society of his age.

( ) writers in the 18th-century English literature modelled themselves on the Greek and Roman writers in their dramatic writings. A: Pre-romanticist B: Realist C: Enlightenment D: Neo-classicist