His book, “The Red Badge of Courage is known to be one of the first “unromanticized depictions of the Civil War. His other novel, “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets” shows a real side to humanity. Most of his stories, he layers this writing with irony and vivid imagery. The term Naturalism describes a type of literature that attempts to apply scientific principles of objectivity and detachment to its study of human beings. Naturalism began as a branch of literary realism, and realism had favored fact, logic, and impersonality over the imaginative, symbolic, and supernatural