Something Interesting During Studying?!

While I was studying for the midterm I realized how interesting I found Naturalism. The fact that there was this literary era where it was new and exciting to write about real facts and events that actually take place in daily life is so strange to me! I would think people would have already been writing about daily life and all the things that take place, not just the good things, and that a fantasy era would be the new and exciting thing. I also think it is interesting that most of the time, authors only wanted to write about the good things, not the real things, which is what makes a story about a girl who is abused by her uncle so compelling because readers know that it is real, not made up. One definition that I found really explained it well, and also talked about the difference between Naturalism and Realism (because they are similar): Realists know what is occurring, but Naturalists investigate the cause and effect of what is occurring.