From Puritanism to Postmodernism A History of American Literature
- New York Routledge 2016
- 441p
includes index and biblioraphy
1. The literature of British America The puritan legacy .........3 Awakening and Enlightenment .........30 2. From Colonial Outpost to Cultural Province Revolution and Independence ..........55 American Naissance ...........94 Yea-Saying and nay-Saying ..........126 3. Native and Cosmopolitan Crosscurrents : From local color to realism and naturalism Secession and loyalty........165 Muckrakers and early moderns ...........199 4. Modernism in the American Grain Outland darts and homemade worlds........217 The second flowering ...........244 Radical Reassessments .........286 Strange realities, adequate Fictions ............334