Concentrated on contemporary life and on middle- and lower-class lives in particular
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- Focused on the human mind and how it worked
- Looked for the relationship between biblical events and things in their own lives
- Experimented with bold new styles and forms of writing, reflecting the fragmentation of society
- Attempts to depict life accurately, using real life situations, without idealizing it.
- Rejected traditional themes, subjects, and forms
- Authors sometimes used the past boldly
- These writers also disliked city life and idealized rural life and the wilderness
- Expressed creativity through combining fiction and non-fiction