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

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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

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