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American Literature Overview

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    Naturalism

    Naturalism is ...
  • The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

    The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

    A novel that showed the awful conditions of immigrants working in the meatpacking industry in Chicago. The descriptions were so vivid that it led to outrage and eventually action. The novel led to legislators creating new laws that eventually established the Food and Drug Administration.
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    Modernism

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  • The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic about disillusionment in the Jazz Age.