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.
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.
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.