The land of the free (except for slaves) and the home of the brave (and extremely violent and repressive) inculcated racial myths within Clemens during his antebellum childhood on the Mississippi that were slowly fractured, but never completely expunged, as he matured intellectually. ... Gerber in "Pudd'nhead Wilson as Fabulation,"" Mark Twain was not really a novelist - he was more of a "new journalist,"" who spun yarns that reflected American life as well or better than any "realistic- novel or overt political propaganda. ... In the public discourse this meant "coon- songs and show...

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Social Conditions of the Lower Classes in Nineteenth Century England The Industrial Revolution made Britain the first industrialized country in the world. ... Under the new law of 1834, the costs for this so-called outdoor relief of the Poor Law of 1601 were then to be reduced by establishing workhouses, where those people who were not able to responsibly support themselves in terms of thriftiness were supposed to go (de Pennington n. pag.). ... North and South's heroine, Margaret Hale, has to discover an "alien environment" (Wright 111) since she was born and raised in Engl...

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