An+Account+of+the+Battle+of+Bull+Run

An Account of the
=//Battle of Bull Run//= = = “Realism is the interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract or speculative. Naturalism is a manner or technique of treating subject matter that presents, through volume of detail, a deterministic view of human life and actions." The art of writing began with narratives and journals, which later directed towards romanticism- it depicted and characterized nature, individual emotion and imagination, classicism and rebellion, and elevated imagination over reason and intuition over fact, but post Civil War altered this train of thought. Reality stepped into place, and the authors focused on portraying “real life” events and factual information- fact over fiction and matter over mind. Casualties, poverty, and deprivation caused citizens to shy away from what was real and what could be real; from this point on people based things on essentials and occurrences. “The literary offshoot of realism was naturalism, it illustrated real people in real situations, but believed that forces larger than the individual-nature, fate, heredity- shaped individual destiny.” Naturalism was a combination between romanticism and realism; anything was possible, but fate and destiny could step in at any given moment. = = = = = =