A History of American LiteratureJohn Wiley & Sons, 23 sept. 2011 - 928 pages Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present.
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Table des matières
The Making of American | 88 |
Contents vii | 252 |
The Development of Literary Realism and Naturalism | 255 |
The Development of Womens Writing | 281 |
The Development of Many Americas | 290 |
The Emergence of Modern | 308 |
Between Victorianism and Modernism | 320 |
Traditionalism Politics and Prophecy | 431 |
Formalists and Confessionals | 532 |
Public and Private Histories | 568 |
Beats Prophets Aesthetes and New Formalists | 599 |
Language and Genre | 705 |
American Literature since 911 | 795 |
Further Reading | 829 |
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Community and Identity | 466 |
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