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Outline of American Literature

December 2006

December 2006

The Outline of American literature, newly revised, traces the paths of American narrative, fiction, poetry and drama as they move from pre-colonial times into the present, through such literary movements as romanticism, realism and experimentation.

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December 2006

Chapters 1-5

  • Chapter 1

    Early American and Colonial Period to 1776

  • Chapter 2

    Democratic Origins and Revolutionary Writers, 1776-1820

  • Chapter 3

    The Romantic Period, 1820-1860, Essayists and Poets

  • Chapter 4

    The Romantic Period, 1820-1860, Fiction

  • Chapter 5

    The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914

Chapters 6-10

  • Chapter 6

    Modernism and Experimentation: 1914-1945

  • Chapter 7

    American Poetry, 1945-1990: The Anti-Tradition

  • Chapter 8

    American Prose, 1945-1990: Realism and Experimentation

  • Chapter 9

    Contemporary American Poetry

  • Chapter 10

    Contemporary American Literature

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