专八人文知识美国文学简史

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　　#0000ff>专八人文知识：美国文学简史(四)

　　Chapter 3 The Age of Realism
　　I.Background: From Romanticism to Realism
　　1.the three conflicts that reached breaking point in this period
　　(1)industrialism vs. agrarian
　　(2)culturely-measured east vs. newly-developed west
　　(3)plantation gentility vs. commercial gentility
　　2.1880’s urbanization: from free competition to monopoly capitalism
　　3.the closing of American frontier
　　II.Characteristics
　　1. truthful description of life
　　2.typical character under typical circumstance
　　3.objective rather than idealized, close observation and investigation of life
　　“Realistic writers are like scientists.”
　　4.open-ending: