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Folklore and fiction
Uncle Tom's Cabin, a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was published in 1852. It was the most popular and influential novel in the 19th century and is considered one of the most influential novels of all time.
Another novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery story with a highly emotional appeal. The book is considered to be the greatest American success story of all time, having sold over 60 million copies by 1850. The book provides the social and political context for American slavery, as the enslaved characters come from . . . the American South.
Theodore Dreiser's novel Sister Carrie is a modern story about a young, poor, working-class woman's life, and the effect of her father's financial ruin on her character. It was published in 1920. The novel is thought to have deeply influenced many artists of the period, including W. C. Fields, who said he was reading the book when he wrote his famous "My mother was an alcoholic" speech. William Faulkner wrote a retort, "I can look back over my life and say that I never killed anyone, but I can look back further and say that I never killed anyone and never harmed anyone, except perhaps in thought."
Many works of fiction by Charles Dickens depict the child-kidnapping of the Victorian era, such as Oliver Twist, Little Dorrit, and Dombey and Son.
Fiction in this period sometimes paid attention to the problems of colorism and racism, which were relatively common among Americans during this time. One example is the short story "The Senator" by Angelina Weld Grimké, published in Harper's Magazine in 1894. The story was about the difficulties faced by a biracial black American woman working as a maid in the 1880s.
Literature
Fiction
Common themes in 19th-century fiction include the experience of urban life, the hardships of working-class life, the plight of women, and the struggle for equality of all races.
George Eliot's novel, Middlemarch (1871), is a study of humanity in which a group of characters are defined by their place in society.
E. M. Forster's A Room with a View (1908) explores many of the issues of the modernist
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