Siste del av "The Democratic Age" (år 1832-1900). Stephen Crane, Henry James og Mark Twain er store navn. Om "The Democratic Age" skriver Bloom:
I have located Vico's Democratic Age in the post-Goethean nineteenth century, when the literature of Italy and Spain ebbs, yielding eminence to England with its renaissance of the Renaissance in Romanticism, and to a lesser degree to France and Germany. This is also the era where the strength of both Russian and American literature begins.