An Outline of Literature

by Kathryn VanSpanckeren

8: American Prose Since 1945: Realism and Experimentation

1. Introduction
2. The realist legacy and the late 1940s
3. The affluent but alienated 1950s
4. The turbulent but creative1960s
5. The 1970s and 1980s: New directions
6. The new regionalism

• Authors