| Description |
1 online resource (806 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Part I: A superpower in the making: beginnings to World War I; 1. Beginnings to 1810; Introduction; Beginnings; Native Americans; The first Puritans; Early Puritan history; Calvinism; Puritan verse; Typology; Theocracy in trouble; The captivity narrative; Diaries; The Salem witch trials; Puritanism and Enlightenment; Jonathan Edwards; Enlightenment in Virginia: Robert Beverley and William Byrd; The Enlightenment personified: Benjamin Franklin; Revolution; Thomas Paine; Crèvecoeur; Thomas Jefferson |
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African American writingWomen writers; American self-confidence; Philip Freneau and Charles Brockden Brown; American irony; The international context; 2. Towards cultural independence: 1810 to the Civil War; Introduction; Washington Irving; Romantic sentiment; James Fenimore Cooper; Frontier women; In Cooper's tracks; Native American voices; Southwest humor; The South; Edgar Allan Poe; The Fireside poets; Sensationalist fiction; Emerson and Transcendentalism; Margaret Fuller; Henry David Thoreau; Two minor poets; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Herman Melville; Sentimental fiction; Walt Whitman |
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The literature of slaveryHarriet Beecher Stowe; Beginning realism; Emily Dickinson; 3. Civil War to World War I: 1865-1918; Introduction: American society from the Civil War to World War I; Regionalism and realism; Mark Twain; Other regionalists; Regional poetry; Realism; William Dean Howells; Henry James; Edith Wharton; The theater; Naturalism; Social issues and reform movements; 'The Color Line'; New Americans; The rise of popular culture; Part II: The American century: World War I to the present; 4. World War I to the Cold War: 1914-45 |
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Introduction: American society from World War I to the Cold WarRegionalism in poetry; Robert Frost; The Modernists; Ezra Pound; T.S. Eliot; William Carlos Williams; Wallace Stevens; Other modernist poets; African American poetry; Regionalist fiction; Modernist fiction: Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein; Francis Scott Fitzgerald; Ernest Hemingway; John Dos Passos; William Faulkner; Other modernist prose writers; African American modernist fiction; Social realism; Drama; Popular literature; 5. After the war: 1945-80; Early postwar fiction; Jewish American novelists; Ellison and Baldwin |
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Beat writers (and some others)Regional writing, mostly Southern (and some New Journalism); Postwar drama; Postwar poetry; Fiction: the sixties and the seventies; Drama in the sixties and seventies; The Black Arts Movement; New ethnic literatures; Popular genres; 6. The end and return of history: 1980-2010; Introduction: the U.S. since 1980; Prose 'after' postmodernism; Minimalism, Dirty Realism and Generation X; Moral fiction; Intertextual realism; Philip Roth; War fiction; Multiculturalism; Poetry; Drama; Popular literature; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This comprehensive history of American Literature traces its development from the earliest colonial writings of the late 1500s through to the present day. This lively, engaging and highly accessible guide:offers lucid discussions of all major influences and movements such as Puritanism, Transcendentalism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism and Postmodernism draws on the historical, cultural, and political contexts of key literary texts and authorscovers the whole range of American literature: prose, poetry, theatre and experimental lit |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
D'haen, Theo
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| ISBN |
9781135104658 |
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1135104654 |
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