Original sentence: In "'Little House on the Prairie' and the Myth of Self Reliance," Julie Tharp and Jeff Kleiman state that the myth of self reliance has contributed to conservative rhetoric, and the Little House books are full of the narrative of self reliance
Edited sentence: In "'Little House on the Prairie' and the Myth of Self Reliance," Julie Tharp and Jeff Kleiman claim that the "myth" of self-reliance has contributed to conservative rhetoric, and the Little House books are full of the narrative of self reliance