A History of American LiteratureUpdated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present.
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Contents
The Making of American | 88 |
The Making of an American Fiction and Poetry | 171 |
The Development of American Literature 18651900 | 219 |
Contents vii | 252 |
The Development of Literary Realism and Naturalism | 255 |
The Emergence of Modern | 308 |
Traditionalism Politics and Prophecy | 431 |
Community and Identity | 466 |
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