History Recap. Romanticism A reaction to the Enlightenment where people believed that man is above nature and that reason explains all Also a reaction.
Realism Reaction against Romanticism & Neoclassicism.
Literature of the Gilded Age 1865 - 1912 ► Realism & Naturalism ► Ambrose Bierce ► Stephen Crane.
19 th Century Literature: The Rise of Realism The effects of the Civil War, Industrialization, and movements in the Fine Arts.