定义及时间
The English critical realists of the 19th century flourished in the forties and the beginning of fifties.
The realists set themselves the task of criticizing capitalist society from a democratic viewpoint and delineated the crying contradictions of bourgeois reality.
Critical realists reveal the social reality and criticize the injustice, poverty and religious hypocrisy.
the features of english critical realism（特征）
1. Gives a satirical portrayal of the bourgeoisie
and shows profound sympathy for the
common people.
2. Democratic and humanistic
3. Unable to find a good solution to the social contradictions.
代表人物：charles dickens
代表作：
Oliver Twist (1837–1839) 雾都孤儿
David Copperfield (1849-50)大卫·科波菲尔