Realism

1. for the novel, individual experience is always unique

2. Traditional plots are rejected for the first time

3. Plot, character and morals are still not perfectly interpenetrated in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding.

4. characters are given particular names and surnames, not generic or descriptive names

5. means "fiction that portrays low life"

6. truth comes through the senses (18th Cen) by Locke, Descrates

7. Traditional Characters are also rejected

8. The method is more important for the realists, the individual investigator studies the particulars of experience