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  2. American literature - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Category:19th-century American writers - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:19th-century African-American writers and Category:19th-century American male writers and Category:19th-century Native American writers and Category:19th-century American women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.

  4. 19th century in literature - Wikipedia

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    It is a primary example of nineteenth-century realism's role in the naturalization of the burgeoning capitalist marketplace. William Dean Howells was the first American author to bring a realist aesthetic to the literature of the United States. His stories of 1850s Boston upper-crust life are highly regarded among scholars of American fiction.

  5. Category:19th-century American novelists - Wikipedia

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    19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd; 24th Pages in category "19th-century American novelists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 508 total ...

  6. Category:19th-century American literature - Wikipedia

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    19th-century American writers (10 C, 744 P) Pages in category "19th-century American literature" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.

  7. American literary regionalism - Wikipedia

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    American literary regionalism, often used interchangeably with the term "local color", is a style or genre of writing in the United States that gained popularity in the mid-to-late 19th century and early 20th century.

  8. Category:19th-century American novels - Wikipedia

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    Characters in American novels of the 19th century (4 C, 14 P) 0–9. 1800s American novels (4 P) ... Anti-Tom literature This page was last ...

  9. Fireside poets - Wikipedia

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    The fireside poets – also known as the schoolroom or household poets [1] – were a group of 19th-century American poets associated with New England. These poets were very popular among readers and critics both in the United States and overseas.