Ruland, Richard

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


9781138642065 1793

U37 / R860