What is the style called?

Question

What is the name of the style of authors like W. Somerset Maugham or Virginia Wolf. You know the first people to ever really get into deep stuff with their characters. Where as people like Dickens just compiled what they looked like and what they did, they really made them human. What is that called?

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I understand that Maugham and Woolf (thanks for the correction by the way) are very different from Dickens. I was simply bringing him up as a contrast in order to clarify my question.

Answer 1

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It is called realism.

Answer 2

You are talking about two very different periods of history. And one evolved from the other. Had Dickens not written and made popular the type of stories he did, Maugham and Woolf (her name is spelled with a double 'o') would never have come to popularity.
Both stories were fiction, but Maugham and Woolf had learned from their predecessors.
The same leap has been made in curent times, with the difference between Maugham's stories (which are pretty boring to the modern reader) and Colleen McCullough's, which are stuffed full of detail.