Part1EarlyAmericanLiterature:ColonialPeriodto1815
1TheLiteratureoftheNewWorld
2TheLiteratureofColonialAmerica:1620—1763
3LiteratureandtheAmericanRevolution:1764—1815
Part2AmericanRomanticism:1815—1865
4TheAgeofAmericanRomanticism
5EarlyRomanticism
6TranscendentalismandSymbolicRepresentation
7InterrogatingInnocence
8WhitmanandDickinson
9AHouseDivided:WritingagainstSlavery
Part3AmericanRealism:1865—1914
10TheAgeofRealism
11RegionalandLocalColorWriting
12HenryJamesandWilliamDeanHowells
13LiteraryNaturalism
14WomenWritingontheWomanQuestion
Part4AmericanModernism:1914—1945
15ModernismintheAmericanGrain
16TheEvolutionofModernism
17AmericanModernisminEurope
18ModernFictionbetweentheWars
19ModernAmericanPoetry
20AfricanAmericanLiteratureandModernism
Part5AmericanLiteratureDiversified:From1945tothe21stCentury
21LiteratureDiversifiedunderNewConditions
22AmericanTheatre:ThreeMajorPlaywrights
23MajorFictionWriters:1945till1960s
24PoeticTendenciessince1945
25FictionalInclinationssincethe1960s
26ContemporaryMultiethnicLiterature
27GlobalizationofAmericanLiterature:DiasporicWriters
SelectedBibliography
ChronologyofHistoricalEvents
Index