The Highlights of American Literature

Table of contents: introduction 1. the colonial beginnings 1.1. prose 1.2. poetry 2. the eighteenth century: the great awakening, the enlightenment and the American revolution 3. the national beginnings 4. American romanticism 4.1. transcendentalizm 4.2. Edgar Allan Poe and American gothic tradition 4.3. the symbolic novel 4.4. poetry 4.4.1. the fireside poets 4.4.2. the great innovators 5. early realism 6. naturalism 7. American literature in the first half of the twentieth century 7.1. poetry 7.2. fiction in the post-world war i decades 8. southern literature 9. American drama 9.1. the long beginnings 9.2. the 1940s 9.3. the younger generations of American playwrights 10. American literature since world war ii 10.1. poetry 10.2. fiction 10.2.1. the beat generation 10.2.2. other writers 11. African American literature 11.1. early African American literature 11.2. the post-slavery decades 11.3. the Harlem renaissance writers 11.4. the post-war decades 11.5. the female voices 11.6. African American drama 12. native American and other ethnic American writers 12.1. native American literature 12.2. Jewish American literature 12.3.mexican-american literature 12.4. Asian American writers complete bibliography index