Realists try to portray life through literature in all its pleasure and pain, Crisler said. The book also portrays literary naturalism, a subset of American realism, Crisler said.

ATTRIBUTING literary works or religious texts to an author other than the real one is known as pseudepigraphy. According to Concise Oxford English Dictionary, ‘pseudepigrapha’ are “spurious ...

Roland Hagenbüchle, American Literature and the Nineteenth-Century Crisis in Epistemology: The Example of Charles Brockden Brown, Early American Literature, Vol. 23, No. 2 (1988), pp. 121-151 ...