With Howells James and Mark Twain active on the literary scene ______ became the major

With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, ______ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.

A．sentimentalism

B．romanticism

C．realism

D．naturalism

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