The Columbia Literary History of the United StatesFor the first time in four decades, there exists an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the literature of the United States, from prehistoric cave narratives to the radical movements of the sixties and the experimentation of the eighties. |
Contents
The Native Voice | 5 |
The Literature of Discovery and Exploration | 16 |
English Literature at the American Moment | 24 |
The Puritan Vision of the New World | 33 |
History and Chronicle | 47 |
Sermons and Theological Writings | 56 |
Biography and Autobiography | 67 |
The Poetry of Colonial America | 83 |
Women Writers and the New Woman | 589 |
Emily Dickinson | 609 |
Mark Twain | 627 |
Henry Adams | 645 |
Henry James | 668 |
The Emergence of Modernism | 695 |
Intellectual Life and Public Discourse | 715 |
Literary Scenes and Literary Movements | 733 |
From Cotton Mather to Benjamin Franklin | 101 |
The American Revolution as a Literary Event | 139 |
Poetry in the Early Republic | 156 |
Charles Brockden Brown and Early American Fiction | 168 |
Toward a National Literature | 187 |
Idealism and Independence | 207 |
Washington Irving and the Knickerbocker Group | 229 |
James Fenimore Cooper and the Writers of the Frontier | 240 |
Edgar Allan Poe and the Writers of the Old South | 262 |
William Cullen Bryant and the Fireside Poets | 278 |
The Rise of the Woman Author | 289 |
Forms of Regional Humor | 306 |
A New Nations Drama | 324 |
Social Discourse and Nonfictional Prose | 345 |
The Transcendentalists | 364 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | 381 |
Henry David Thoreau | 399 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | 413 |
Literature and Culture | 467 |
Culture and Consciousness | 482 |
Realism and Regionalism | 501 |
Naturalism and the Languages of Determinism | 525 |
Literature for the Populace | 549 |
Immigrants and Other Americans | 568 |
A Diminished Thing | 761 |
AfroAmerican Literature | 785 |
Mexican American Literature | 800 |
Asian American Literature | 811 |
Women Writers Between the Wars | 822 |
The Diversity of American Fiction | 845 |
Ernest Hemingway F Scott Fitzgerald | 873 |
William Faulkner | 887 |
The Diversity of American Poetry | 913 |
Robert Frost | 937 |
Ezra Pound and T S Eliot | 947 |
William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens | 972 |
Literary Criticism | 993 |
Culture Power and Society | 1023 |
The New Philosophy | 1045 |
Literature as Radical Statement | 1060 |
Poetry | 1079 |
TwentiethCentury Drama | 1101 |
The Fictions of the Present | 1161 |
Writing | 1178 |
Notes on Contributors | 1201 |
Index | 1211 |
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Columbia Literary History of the United States, Part 1 Emory Elliott,Martha Banta,Houston A. Baker No preview available - 1988 |