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Naturalism
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
A novel that showed the awful conditions of immigrants working in the meatpacking industry in Chicago. The descriptions were so vivid that it led to outrage and eventually action. The novel led to legislators creating new laws that eventually established the Food and Drug Administration. -
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Modernism
After World War I, Modernist authors felt the American Dream was dead and wrote several books lskfd askd fjaisk gja;ogsI -
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic about disillusionment in the Jazz Age.