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For information on how to proceed, first see the FAQ for blocked users and the guideline on block appeals. The guide to appealing blocks may also be helpful. Other useful links: Blocking policy · Help:I have been blocked You can view and copy the source of this page: ==Late 19th century Realist fiction== [[File:MarkTwain1907.jpg|thumb|[[Mark Twain]], 1907]] Mark Twain (the pen name used by [[Mark Twain|Samuel Langhorne Clemens]], 1835–1910) was among the first major American writers to be born away from the East Coast – in the border state of [[Missouri]]. His regional masterpieces were the memoir ''[[Life on the Mississippi]]'' and the novels ''[[Adventures of Tom Sawyer]]'' and ''[[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'' (1884). Twain's style – influenced by journalism, wedded to the vernacular, direct and unadorned but also highly evocative and irreverently humorous – changed the way Americans write their language. His characters speak like real people and sound distinctively American, using local dialects, newly invented words, and regional accents. Other writers interested in regional differences and dialect were [[George W. Cable]], [[Thomas Nelson Page]], [[Joel Chandler Harris]], [[Mary Noailles Murfree]] ([[Charles Egbert Craddock]]), [[Sarah Orne Jewett]], [[Mary E. Wilkins Freeman]], [[Henry Cuyler Bunner]], and William Sydney Porter ([[O. Henry]]). A version of local color regionalism that focused on minority experiences can be seen in the works of [[Charles W. Chesnutt]] (African American), of [[María Ruiz de Burton]], one of the earliest [[Mexican American]] novelists to write in English, and in the [[Yiddish]]-inflected works of [[Abraham Cahan]]. [[William Dean Howells]] also represented the [[realism (arts)|realist]] tradition through his novels, including ''[[The Rise of Silas Lapham]]'' (1885) and his work as editor of ''[[The Atlantic Monthly]]''. [[Henry James]] (1843–1916) confronted the Old World-New World dilemma by writing directly about it. Although he was born in New York City, James spent most of his adult life in England. Many of his novels center on Americans who live in or travel to Europe. With its intricate, highly qualified sentences and dissection of emotional and psychological nuance, James's fiction can be daunting. Among his more accessible works are the novellas ''[[Daisy Miller]]'' (1878), about an American girl in Europe, and ''[[The Turn of the Screw]]'' (1898), a ghost story. [[Stephen Crane]] (1871–1900), best known for his Civil War novel ''[[The Red Badge of Courage]]'' (1895), depicted the life of New York City prostitutes in ''[[Maggie: A Girl of the Streets]]'' (1893). And in ''[[Sister Carrie]]'' (1900), [[Theodore Dreiser]] (1871–1945) portrayed a country girl who moves to [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]] and becomes a kept woman. [[Frank Norris]]'s (1870 – 1902) fiction was predominantly in the [[naturalist]] genre. His notable works include ''[[McTeague|McTeague: A Story of San Francisco]]'' (1899), ''[[The Octopus: A Story of California]]'' (1901) and ''[[The Pit (Norris novel)|The Pit]]'' (1903). Norris along with [[Hamlin Garland]] (1860 – 1940) wrote about the problems of American farmers and other social issues from a naturalist perspective. Garland is best known for his fiction involving hard-working [[American Midwest|Midwestern]] farmers.{{cite web|url=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=10601&keyword=garland|title=Garland, Hamlin 1860 - 1940|work=Dictionary of Wisconsin History|publisher=Wisconsin Historical Society|access-date=2009-10-17}} (''[[Main-Travelled Roads]]'' (1891), ''Prairie Folks'' (1892), ''[[Jason Edwards: An Average Man|Jason Edwards]]'' (1892).{{cite web |url=http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/nye-russel_hamlin-garland-and-henry-george-1943.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-01-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203135043/http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/nye-russel_hamlin-garland-and-henry-george-1943.html |archive-date=2014-02-03 }}) ===Social novel=== [[Edward Bellamy]]'s [[utopian]] novel ''[[Looking Backward]]'' (1888) was concerned with political and social issues. Return to American literature. 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