Re: Mark Twain

Date: 2008-12-12 01:17 pm (UTC)
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I think that part of Cooper's huge appeal lay in the lack of competition at the time. In the early nineteenth century there had been few truly American novels: that is, books written by Americans in an American idiom about American subjects. By Twain's time there was a substantial corpus of such work and the bar was raised accordingly.
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