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Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present - cover

Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present

Doug Davis, Amy Berke, Robert Bleil, Jordan Cofer

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Writing the Nation displays key literary movements and the American authors associated with the movement. Topics include late romanticism, realism, naturalism, modernism, and modern literature. Contents:  Late Romanticism (1855-1870)  Realism (1865-1890) Local Color (1865-1885)  Regionalism (1875-1895)  William Dean Howells  Ambrose Bierce  Henry James  Sarah Orne Jewett  Kate Chopin  Mary E. Wilkins Freeman  Charles Waddell Chesnutt  Charlotte Perkins Gilman  Naturalism (1890-1914)  Frank Norris  Stephen Crane  Turn of the Twentieth Century and the Growth of Modernism (1893 - 1914)  Booker T. Washington  Zane Grey  Modernism (1914 - 1945)  The Great War  Une Generation Perdue… (a Lost Generation)  A Modern Nation  Technology  Modernist Literature  Further Reading: Additional Secondary Sources  Robert Frost  Wallace Stevens  William Carlos Williams  Ezra Pound  Marianne Moore  T. S. Eliot  Edna St. Vincent Millay  E. E. Cummings  F. Scott Fitzgerald  Ernest Hemingway  Arthur Miller  Southern Renaissance – First Wave  Ellen Glasgow  William Faulkner  Eudora Alice Welty  The Harlem Renaissance  Jessie Redmon Fauset  Zora Neale Hurston  Nella Larsen  Langston Hughes  Countee Cullen  Jean Toomer  American Literature Since 1945 (1945 - Present)  Southern Literary Renaissance - Second Wave (1945-1965)  The Cold War and the Southern Literary Renaissance  Economic Prosperity  The Civil Rights Movement in the South  New Criticism and the Rise of the MFA Program  Innovation  Tennessee Williams  James Dickey  Flannery O'Connor Postmodernism  Theodore Roethke  Ralph Ellison  James Baldwin  Allen Ginsberg  Adrienne Rich  Toni Morrison  Donald Barthelme  Sylvia Plath  Don Delillo  Alice Walker  Leslie Marmon Silko  David Foster Wallace
Disponible desde: 21/12/2023.
Longitud de impresión: 957 páginas.

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