Georg Brandes in the book "Main Currents in Nineteenth-Century Literature - 4. Naturalism in England" describes the concept, history, and philosophy of naturalism within England. It covers a combination of prose and poetry in describing the various types of naturalism in existence including radical naturalism, historical naturalism, etc., and their association with other amazing concepts.

Georg Brandes in the book "Main Currents in Nineteenth-Century Literature - 1. The Emigrant Literature" tries to evaluate the psychology behind the events of the first half of the 1800s. This book discusses the turning point, break, and development that took place in the nineteenth century. It is centered on the growth and progress of Britain.

Excerpt from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature, Vol. 4 of 6 IT is my intention to trace in the poetry of England of the first decades of this century, the course of the strong, deep, pregnant current in the intellectual life of the country, which, sweeping away the classic forms and conventions, produces a Naturalism dominating the whole of literature, which from Naturalism leads to Radicalism, from revolt against traditional convention in literature to vigorous rebellion against religious and political reaction, and which bears in its bosom the germs of all the liberal ideas and emancipatory achievements of the later periods of European civilisation. The literary period which I now proceed to describe is a vigorous, highly productive one. It has authors and schools of the most dissimilar types, sometimes not merely unlike, but antagonistic to, each other. Though the connection between these authors and schools is not self-evident, but only discernible to the understanding, critical eye, yet the period has its unity, and the picture it presents, though a many-coloured, restless one, is a coherent composition, the work of the great artist, history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.