2. The Core of American realise 1) As a literary movement realism came in the latter half of the nineteenth century as a reaction against the lie"of romanticism and sentimentalism It expressed the concern for the world of experience of the commonplace, and for the familiar and the 2 The American realists advocated verisimilitude of detail derived from observation the effort to approach the norm of experience a reliance on the representative in plot, setting, and character, and to offer an obiective rather than an idealized view of human nature and experience 退出 美国文学美国文学 2. The Core of American realism? 1) As a literary movement realism came in the latter half of the nineteenth century as a reaction against “the lie” of romanticism and sentimentalism. It expressed the concern for the world of experience, of the commonplace, and for the familiar and the low. 2) The American realists advocated “verisimilitude of detail derived from observation,” the effort to approach the norm of experience —— a reliance on the representative in plot, setting, and character, and to offer an objective rather than an idealized view of human nature and experience. 退出