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English literature

Is it ONLY confined to the British isles? I myself, if I use the phrase, tend to include (perhaps incorrectly) anything written by an American in the English language. I know that Henry James is a tricky case, since, although American, one thinks of him as being a British writer, but what about Mark Twain? I remember being forced to take an English 101 course at Harvard where the lecturer was a semi-celebrated Richard Poirier, and some of his lectures involved Twain and other Americans. (He insisted, by the way, that for a nom de plume, the FULL name HAD to used, ie, you always referred to Mark Twain and NEVER to Twain. He used to drive me crazy.) Hayford Peirce (talk) 20:41, 12 September 2020 (UTC)