INDRODUCTION Whether there is an American novel literature or not, is no longer in doubt. Even before 1776, a great number of people were writing in the American colonies, and sometimes specifically about America, out of close knowledge ... internationally recognized. When though would be a genuine fully fledged literature of America? The united states was culturally an offshoot of Europe. The colonists were Europeans, together with Africans or involuntary' immigrants, brought by slave trade. Writing in America was therefore subsumed within the one great literature-English literature- Henry ...

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... clean working environment. Many believe muckraker Upton Sinclair started the entire progressive movement by writing about such conditions in "The Jungle", an extremely popular novel of the time. In "The Jungle," Sinclair vividly described the harsh life of working in the meat packing industry. Men were being cut by ... boots and the skin in his feet. Not only did these unsanitary conditions affect the workers but also the food. As illustrated in the novel, citizens who thought they were eating high quality foods were eating anything but. Instead they were ingesting spoiled meats, rats, t...

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