by Jonathan D. Kantrowitz and Kathi Godiksen
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Chapter 1: Early American and Colonial Period to 1776
The Literature of Exploration..............................................................................................................1
The Colonial Period in New England..................................................................................................6
Literature in the Southern and Middle Colonies ............................................................................23
Chapter 2: Democratic Origins and Revolutionary Writers, 1776–1820 ............27
The American Enlightenment ..........................................................................................................32
The Political Pamphlet ......................................................................................................................37
Neoclassism: Epic, Mock Epic, and Satire........................................................................................39
Poet of the American Revolution: Philip Freneau (1752–1832) ......................................................41
Writers of Fiction................................................................................................................................43
Women and Minorities ......................................................................................................................49
Chapter 3: The Romantic Period, 1820–1860: Essayists and Poets......................52
Transcendentalism ............................................................................................................................54
The Brahmin Poets ............................................................................................................................63
Two Reformers ....................................................................................................................................66
Chapter 4: The Romantic Period, 1820–1860: Fiction............................................70
The Romance ......................................................................................................................................72
Women Writers and Reformers..........................................................................................................82
Chapter 5: The Rise of Realism: 1860–1914 ..........................................................89
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835–1910)....................................................................................90
Frontier Humor and Realism ............................................................................................................95
Local Colorists ....................................................................................................................................96
Midwestern Realism ..........................................................................................................................98
Cosmopolitan Novelists......................................................................................................................98
Naturalism and Muckraking ..........................................................................................................102
The “Chicago School” of Poetry........................................................................................................108
Two Women Regional Novelists ......................................................................................................112
The Rise of Black American Literature ..........................................................................................113
Table of Contents
Chapter 6: Modernism and Experimentation: 1914–1945 ....................................116
Modernism ........................................................................................................................................121
Poetry 1914–1945: Experiments in Form ......................................................................................123
Between the Wars ............................................................................................................................131
Prose Writing, 1914–1945: American Realism ..............................................................................134
Novels of Social Awareness ..............................................................................................................139
The Harlem Renaissance ................................................................................................................145
Literary Currents: The Fugitives and New Criticism ..................................................................147
20th-Century American Drama ......................................................................................................149
Chapter 7: American Poetry Since 1945: The Anti-Tradition ............................152
Traditionalism ..................................................................................................................................155
Idiosyncratic Poets ..........................................................................................................................160
Experimental Poetry ........................................................................................................................165
Women and Multiethnic Poets ........................................................................................................171
New Directions ................................................................................................................................178
Chapter 8: American Prose Since 1945: Realism and Experimentation ............180
The Realist Legacy and the Late 1940s..........................................................................................182
The Affluent But Alienated 1950s ..................................................................................................186
The Turbulent But Creative 1960s..................................................................................................196
The 1970s and 1980s: New Directions ............................................................................................201
The New Regionalism ......................................................................................................................206
Glossary ............................................................................................................................215
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