Literary manifesto
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A literary manifesto is an art manifesto concerned with literature. The first literary manifestoes appeared in the 19th century. Documents regarding the theory of literature had appeared since the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns.
Romantic literature was the first genre to be associated with a manifesto of sorts in the form of the preface to Cromwell (1827) by Victor Hugo. The second literary manifesto was the preface to The Human Comedy by Balzac, often considered as the manifesto of Realism.
The third movement with a manifesto is Naturalism. Two texts are usually attributed as being the Manifesto of Naturalism, the first is "Preface to the second edition of Thérèse Raquin" (1867) and the second the essay "The Experimental Novel" (1880). Both are by Émile Zola. A third text of his, "Les Romanciers naturalistes" (1881), also defends Naturalism as genre, by tracing its precursors.
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