What caused this, /lit/? Why did the novel replace the romance in literary circles?>inb4 the romance isn't matureThe writers on the right were influenced by the writers on the left. dostoyevsky read walter scott and ann radcliffe, for example
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>>24759420>WhyBecause of a specific novel on the left hand side : Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. It was used as a basis by French authors like Balzac to create the "naturalist" aka realist movement. Then Balzac influenced all the other authors on the right hand side : Dostoyesvsky, Zola, Henry James, Proust, etc.