An Outline of American Literature

by Kathryn VanSpanckeren

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

1. Early American and Colonial Period to 1776
2. Democratic Origins and Revolutionary Writers, 1776-1820
3. The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Essayists and Poets
4. The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction
5. The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914
6. Modernism and Experimentation: 1914-1945
7. American Poetry Since 1945: The Anti-Tradition
8. American Prose Since 1945: Realism and Experimentation

• Authors
• Glossary

  
  

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