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    • The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914 >
      • Introduction
      • Frontier humor and realism
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      • Cosmopolitan novelists - Naturalism and Muckraking
      • The "Chicago School" of poetry
      • Two women regional novelists
      • The rise of black American literature
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