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The Midwestern Novel: Literary Populism from Huckleberry Finn to the Present

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With Huckleberry Finn, American fiction changed radically and shifted its setting to the middle of the country. A focus on social issues replaced the philosophic and psychological explorations that dominated the work of Melville and Hawthorne. Colloquial speech rather than elevated language articulated these fresh ideas, while common folk rather than dramatic characters like Ahab and Hester Prynne played central roles.

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The Midwestern Novel: Literary Populism from Huckleberry Finn to the Present 2014, McFarland & Company, Jefferson

ISBN-13: 9780786494354

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