No...it is not a proper noun.
Please can you send me a screenshot of the passage. I can't really answer it
Answer:
Realism.
Explanation:
The given quote is taken from the novel titled 'The Marrow of Tradition' written by Charles Waddell Chestnutt in 1901. The novel is a historical novel that portrayed the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898.
The literary era that the given quote resemble is realism. The novel was written during the realist literary period. Realism is an era between 1865-1900, a movement that opposed Romanticism.
So, the correct asnwer is realism.
