The Britannica guide to world literature

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American literature from the 1850s to 1945

2011
Explores the works, writers, and movements that shaped the American literary canon from the end of the nineteenth century through the first half of the twentith.

American literature from 1945 through today

2011
This book describes the development of American literature from impressive new novelists, poets, and playwrights emerging after World War II to the postwar drama, literary criticism, and literary biography of the end of the twentieth century.

American literature from 1600 through the 1850s

2011
This book describes literary development in American literature from religious and political writings of the seventeenth century to a burst of creativity known as the American Renaissance from the 1830s to the 1860s.
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