Author Description

This engaging volume discusses sectionalism, industrialism, and literary regionalism; slave narratives and race relations; the life and works of Mark Twain; urban writers and internationalism; regionalism; and naturalism, determinism, and social reform. Topics include: Slave narratives and race relations Urban writers and internationalism Protest writers and literature of social reform Naturalism and sectionalism and more. Writers covered include: Horatio Alger Charles Chesnutt Kate Chopin Stephen Crane William Dean Howells Harriet Jacobs Henry James Jack London Upton Sinclair Mark Twain Edith Wharton and many others.