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In the 19th century, improvements in paper production, as well as the invention of cast-iron, steam-powered printing presses, enabled book publishing on a very large scale, and made books of all kinds affordable by all. Scholarship on children's literature includes professional organizations, dedicated publications, and university courses.
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Major American poets of the nineteenth century include Walt Whitman, Melville, and Emily Dickinson. Mark Twain was the first major American writer to be born in the West. Henry James achieved international recognition with novels like The Portrait of a Lady (1881). Following World War I, modernist literature rejected nineteenth-century forms ...
Lavilla Esther Allen. Esther Saville Allen. M. Catherine Allen. Richard Alsop. Nathaniel Ames (writer) Estelle Mendell Amory. William J. Anderson. Jane Andrews (author) Joseph Kinnicutt Angell.
Hugh Henry Brackenridge. William R. Bradshaw. Cyrus Townsend Brady. Anna de Brémont. Anne Hampton Brewster. Mary Dow Brine. Abbott Hall Brisbane. Alice Brown (writer)
In 1884, Mark Twain published what is arguably the most influential Southern novel of the 19th century, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Ernest Hemingway said of the novel, "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." This statement applies even more to Southern literature because of the novel's ...
The Knickerbocker Group was a somewhat indistinct group of 19th-century American writers. [1] Its most prominent members included Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper and William Cullen Bryant. Each was a pioneer in general literature— novels, poetry and journalism. Humorously titled after Irving's own pen name, many others later joined ...
Signature. William Gilmore Simms (April 17, 1806 – June 11, 1870) was a poet, novelist, politician and historian from the American South. His writings achieved great prominence during the 19th century, with Edgar Allan Poe pronouncing him the best novelist America had ever produced. [1] He is still known among literary scholars as a major ...