Rejected traditional themes, subjects, and forms
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- They rejected the idea of an ideal hero, but accepted flawed heroes
- Concentrated on contemporary life and on middle- and lower-class lives in particular
- These writers also disliked city life and idealized rural life and the wilderness
- Focused on the human mind and how it worked
- Writers described the workings of God
- Authors sometimes used the past boldly
- Attempts to depict life accurately, using real life situations, without idealizing it.
- Looked for the relationship between biblical events and things in their own lives