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Indelicate silliness and a practical depiction of the new American outskirts were rapidly dislodging the refined culture of the New England artistic circle. William Dean Howells portrayed the new development as "nothing more and nothing not as much as the honest treatment of material." another brand of writing rose up out of the cinders of refined Romanticism, and this writing assaulted existing symbols, both artistic and societal. The assault was not shocking, for the new writers, for example, Mark Twain, had ascended from white collar class qualities, and in this way they were in direct differentiation to the informed and polished journalists who had preceded them. Artistic Realism endeavored to delineate an America as it truly might have been, free by Romanticism and frequently merciless and cruel in its existence. In Huck Finn, this differentiation uncovers itself in the appearance of Tom and