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| | Syllabus Fall 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | The local colorists-Bret Harte, General Lewis Wallace, Edward Eggleston, John Hay, Joaquin Miller, Helen Hunt Jackson, Henry Grady, Hamlin Garland, George Washington Cable, Joel Chandler Harris, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Mary Noialles Murfree, Charles Dudley Warner-cede their places to Henry James, Henry Adams, and Theo dore Dreiser. |
 | | Henry James and Constance Fenimore Woolson are allotted two stories apiece; Bret Harte is represented by five selections, Mark Twain by one. |
 | | I have listed these excisions and revisions at length because they show in a detailed and striking manner that "literature" is not a stable entity, but a category whose outlines and contents are vari able. |
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