When dispassionate science and passionate art read from the same script

At the end of the 19th century,Scientific realism, which investigates the generative mechanisms underlying the visible world, had an affinity with literary realism, which seeks to lay bare the hidden forces that go into the making of character and event.

At the end of the 19th century, this evolved into naturalism, with its clinical narratives and pseudo-scientific explorations of heredity and environment, in accordance with which the novel could be regarded as a social laboratory.

The dispassionate stance of the scientist found an echo in the disinterestedness of the artist.