![]() ![]() ![]() Least in its popular forms, in the main by solemn, typically moralistic men from New England and the Old South no longer were polite, well-dressed, grammatically correct, middle-class young people the only central characters in its narratives no longer were these narratives to be set in exotic places and remote times no longer, indeed, were fiction, poetry, drama, and formal history the chief acceptable forms of literary expression no longer, finally, was literature read primarily by young, middle class women. As a result, at the onset of World War I, the spirit and substance of American literature had evolved remarkably, just as its center of production had shifted from Boston to New York In the late 1880s and the sources of its energy to Chicago and the Midwest. Line New themes, new forms, new subjects, new regions, new authors, new audiences all emerged in the literature of this half century. Anied by the development of a national literature of great abundance and variety. ![]()
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