Introduction Part 1 Early American Literature: Colonial Period to 1815 1 The Literature of the New World 2 The Literature of Colonial America: 1620―1763 3 Literature and the American Revolution: 1764―1815 Part 2 American Romanticism: 1815―1865 4 The Age of American Romanticism 5 Early Romanticism 6 Transcendentalism and Symbolic Representation 7 Interrogating Innocence 8 Whitman and Dickinson 9 A House Divided: Writing against Slavery Part 3 American Realism: 1865―1914 10 The Age of Realism 11 Regional and Local Color Writing 12 Henry James and William Dean Howells 13 Literary Naturalism 14 Women Writing on the Woman Question Part 4 American Modernism: 1914―1945 15 Modernism in the American Grain 16 The Evolution of Modernism 17 American Modernism in Europe 18 Modern Fiction between the Wars 19 Modern American Poetry 20 African American Literature and Modernism Part 5 American Literature Diversified: From 1945 to the 21st Century 21 Literature Diversified under New Conditions 22 American Theatre: Three Major Playwrights 23 Major Fiction Writers: 1945 till 1960s 24 Poetic Tendencies since 1945 25 Fictional Inclinations since the 1960s 26 Contemporary Multiethnic Literature 27 Globalization of American Literature: Diasporic Writers Selected Bibliography Chronology of Historical Events Index

Introduction Part 1 Early American Literature: Colonial Period to 1815 1 The Literature of the New World 2 The Literature of Colonial America: 1620―1763 3 Literature and the American Revolution: 1764―1815 Part 2 American Romanticism: 1815―1865 4 The Age of American Romanticism 5 Early Romanticism 6 Transcendentalism and Symbolic Representation 7 Interrogating Innocence 8 Whitman and Dickinson 9 A House Divided: Writing against Slavery Part 3 American Realism: 1865―1914 10 The Age of Realism 11 R...