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Critical Realism（批判现实主义）The critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the forties and the beginning of fifties. The realists first and foremost set themselves the task of criticizing capitalist society from a democratic viewpoint and delineated the crying characterization of bourgeois reality. But they did not find a way to eradicate social evils. The representative novelists are Charles Dickens, Thackeray, Bronte sisters and William Makepeace Thackeray and so on. Aestheticism Aestheticism, the doctrine or disposition that regards beauty as an end in itself, and attempts to preserve t