This book is about the historical moment when writers and critics
first used the term "realism" to describe representation in
literature and painting. While scholarship on realism tends to
proceed from an assumption that the term has a long-established
meaning and history, this book reveals that mid-nineteenth-century
critics and writers first used the term reluctantly, with much
confusion over what it might actually mean. It did not acquire the
ready meaning we now take for granted until the end of the
nineteenth century. In fact, its first definitions came primarily
by way of example and analogy, through descriptions of current
practitioners, or through fictionalized representations of artists.
By investigating original debates over the term "realism," this
book shows how writers simultaneously engaged with broader concerns
about the changing meanings of what was real and who had the
authority to decide this.
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