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Chapter 8 The Age of Realism Howells. James The Background of A Realism√ The Civil War led many to question the Transcendentalist philosophy. Increasing industrialization and mechanization of the country after the war produced extremes of wealth and poverty. The war marked a deterioration of American moral values. Beneath the glittering surface of prosperity there lay suffering and unhappiness. P116-7 American Realism As a literary movement, American realism came in the latter half of the nineteenth century as a reaction against “the lie” of romanticism and sentimentalism. It expressed