... IN THE WOODS and RESISTANCE TO CIVIL GOVERNMENT. The AGE OF REALISM, from 1835-1910, explained why ordinary people behave the way they do. Realistic novelists often relied on the emerging sciences of human and animal behavior-biology, psychology, and sociology-as well as on their own insights and observations. The most well-known writer of this time was Mark Twain, complimented for one of the most famous short stories in American literature, THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN ... and LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI. American ... ...

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