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Now in full color for the first time, this updated and expanded edition 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; African-American voices; And more.; Writers covered include: Horatio Alger; Charles Chesnutt; Kate Chopin; Stephen Crane; William Dean Howells; Harriet Jacobs; Henry James Jack London; Upton Sini>Mark Twain; Edith Wharton; And many others.