1. Define the difference between realism and romance.
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the realistic method?
3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the romantic method?
4. Which method is more natural to your own mind?
5. Upon what evidence have you based your answer to the foregoing question?
SUGGESTED READING
Bliss Perry: “A Study of Prose Fiction”––Chapter IX, on “Realism,” and Chapter X, on “Romanticism.”
F. Marion Crawford: “The Novel: What It Is.”
Henry James: “The Art of Fiction.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Preface to “The House of the Seven Gables.”