A Brief History of American Literature
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African American appeared became become begins belief born called century character City Civil collection commitment concerned continued conventional culture death described dream early England eventually experience explore expressed fact father feeling fiction figure followed force hero human identity imaginative Indian individual insisted instance interest James John kind land language later learned lives means moral mother moved narrative narrator Native American nature never notable novel offers once particular past perhaps play poems poet poetry political possible present protagonist published reader reflects sense shows simple slave slavery social society Song South story suggests tells things tradition truth turn United vision voice West woman women writing written wrote York young