Word: outburst
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Dates: during 1891-1891
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...novel and the divisions of literature assume the following order for the subject in hand: Historical Writing, Literary Criticism, and Imaginative Writing. The last subdivides into Drama, Poetry and Fiction. In all these branches, Realism, which in France began about 1840 as a revulsion from the violent romantic outburst which preceded it, has held sway and has spread to other lands. The growing tendency has been each year to subordinate the personal to the general, to reduce the importance of the individual, to enhance the value of all that is general and therefore, part of the exterior of life...
Professor Sloane of Princeton is writing an American History on the period from the outburst of the Old French War to the close of the Revolution. The book will be one of the American Historical Series published by Scribner...