A chronological outline of American literature
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A chronological outline of American literature
(Bibliographies and indexes in American literature, no. 8)
Greenwood Press, 1987
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Bibliography: p. [xiii]-xiv
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is the first book to examine the literary history of the United States in terms of the chronological occurrence of significant events and activities. This comprehensive volume lists the dates of birth and death of literary figures, important historical facts, and the authors and titles of works published for each year, from Colonial times to the present. The compiler's introduction offers an interesting and informative discussion of how, from little more than a list of author's titles, and events, we may observe a year in the history of a nation, through the political, scientific, and social developments that fired the imaginations of America's writers, and fed the appetites of a growing reading public.
Table of Contents
Introduction Key to Symbols References The Sixteenth Century The Seventeenth Century The Eighteenth Century The Nineteenth Century: 1800-1850 The Nineteenth Century: 1851-1899 The Twentieth Century: 1900-1940 The Twentieth Century: 1941-1986 Index of Authors and Events
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