Dime Novels and Historical Romances

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A Book for a Dime. During the 1880s and 1890s the American literati assumed the mantle of social reform and scientific inquiry. William Dean Howells defended the anarchists arrested in Chicago ’ s Haymarket bombing. The normally aloof Henry James wrote two expressly “ political ” novels, The Bostonians (1886) and The Princess Casamassima (1886). And the young writers known as naturalists began to spin progressively darker and grimmer tales of urban malaise, social inequity, and

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