A History of American Literature

introduction


part 1 early american literature: colonial period to 1815

1 the literature of the new world

2 the literature of colonial america: 1620-1763

3 literature and the american revolution: 1764-1815


part 2 american romanticism: 1815-1865

4 the age of american romanticism

5 early romanticism

6 transcendentalism and symbolic representation

7 interrogating innocence

8 whitman and dickinson

9 a house divided: writing against slavery


part 3 american realism: 1865-1914

10 the age of realism

11 regional and local color writing

12 henry james and william dean howells

13 literary naturalism

. 14 women writing on the woman question


part 4 american modernism: 1914-1945

15 modernism in the american grain

16 the evolution of modernism

17 american modernism in europe

18 modern fiction between the wars

19 modern american poetry

20 african american literature and modernism


part 5 american literature diversified: from 1945 to the 21st century

21 literature diversified under new conditions

22 american theatre: three major playwrights

23 major fiction writers: 1945 till 1960s

24 poetic tendencies since 1945

25 fictional inclinations since the 1960s

26 contemporary multiethnic literature

27 globalization of american literature: diasporic writers


selected bibliography

chronology of historical events

index