Reaction Against Realism: The Turn Toward Romanticism
►“A large number of readers, who have wearied of minute descriptions of the commonplace, are to-day often found condemning an author who does not keep his hero in imminent danger of death through at least seventy-five percent of his pages.“  --John Kendrick Bangs, 1898
Bangs, John Kendrick. "Literary Notes." Harper's New Monthly Magazine 97 (November 1898): 1-2.  Image courtesy of http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/sc_as_mt/70birthday/harpers04.html