Table of Contents
[ Up ] [ Introduction ] [ Native American Literature ] [ Early American and Colonial Period ] [ Democratic Origins ] [ A New American Poetry ] [ Rise of Realism ] [ Romantic Period: Essayists and Poets ] [ Romantic Period: Fiction ] [ Modernism ] [ American Poetry: 1945 to Present ] [ American Prose: 1945 to Present ] [ Glossary ]

• Introduction to American Studies: Literature
• Native American Literature
• Early American and Colonial Period to 1776
  • Introduction
  • The literature of exploration
  • The Colonial period in New England
• Democratic Origins and Revolutionary Writers, 1776-1820
  • Introduction
  • The American Enlightenment
  • The Political pamphlet: Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
  • Neoclassism: Epic, mock epic and satire
  • Poet of the American Revolution: Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
  • Writers of fiction
  • Women and minorities
• The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Essayists and Poets
  • Introduction
  • Transcendentalism
  • The Brahmin poets
  • Two reformers
• The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction
  • Introduction
  • The Romance
  • Women writers and reformers
• The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914
  • Introduction
  • Frontier humor and realism
  • Local colorists
  • Midwestern realism
  • Cosmopolitan novelists - Naturalism and Muckraking
  • The "Chicago School" of poetry
  • Two women regional novelists
  • The rise of black American literature
• Modernism and Experimentation: 1914-1945
  • Introduction
  • Modernism
  • Poetry 1914-1945: experiments in form
  • Between the wars
  • Prose writing, 1914-1945: American realism
  • Novels of social awareness
  • The Harlem renaissance
  • Literary currents: the fugitives and new criticism
  • 20th-century American drama
• American Poetry Since 1945: The Anti-Tradition
  • Introduction
  • Traditionalism
  • Idiosyncratic poets
  • Experimental poetry
  • Women and multiethnic poets
  • New directions
• American Prose Since 1945: Realism and Experimentation
  • Introduction
  • The realist legacy and the late 1940s
  • The affluent but alienated 1950s
  • The turbulent but creative1960s
  • The 1970s and 1980s: New directions
  • The new regionalism