History of American literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc
236 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780912289113, 0912289112
10313812
1. Terms of tradition : Discovery and settlement ; A new Eden and the American Dream ; Huckleberry Finn and his kind ; The Dream and the past ; The frontier
2. The colonies : Pilgrims and Puritans ; Voices of dissent ; The Mather dynasty ; Personal narratives ; Bradstreet, Wigglesworth and Taylor ; The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening ; Jonathan Edwards and other individualists ; The South
3. The Revolution : Benjamin Franklin ; Thomas Jefferson ; Poetry ; The novel
4. The waiting poem : Irving, Bryant and Cooper ; Poe
5. Renaissance : Humorists and Brahmins ; The Transcendentalists ; Emerson and Thoreau ; Hawthorne ; Melville ; Walt Whitman and the Civil War
5. Realisms : Regionalists ; Imaginary worlds and wishful thinking ; Twain ; 'Real life' ; Henry James ; Women, war and money ; Gopher Prairie and West Egg
7. Modernisms : Emily Dickinson ; Henry Adams and the dynamics of the modern world ; Native voices in poetry ; Making it new ; T.S. Eliot : alienation and language ; Reality and imagination ; The rise of American drama ; O'Neill ; Realism and protest in the novel ; Hemingway ; The South ; Faulkner ; The Nashville Fugitives ; Robert Penn Warren
8. Diversity : Civil rights and Black writing ; War and society in the novel ; John Cheever ; Specialists and women ; John Updike ; Jewish novelists ; Saul Bellow ; Satire ; Barth and Pynchon ; Drama after 1940 ; Williams and Miller ; Albee and after ; Poetry, personality and politics ; Berryman and Lowell ; Black poets ; Mind and language