... informed US laws and social interaction. Many authors and literary critics saw connections between literary content and social influence. For example, in "Criticism and Fiction" (1891), William Dean Howells, a advocate of nineteenth-century American realism, warns readers to avoid sentimental or sensational novels, which he claims "hurt" by presenting "idle lies about human nature and the social fabric." He reminds us, "It ... Americans who had, before she wrote, little voice in American literature. Amy Ling characterizes Sui Sin Far's writing as among one of "the earliest attempts by A...

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