Columbia literary history of the United States
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Columbia literary history of the United States
Columbia University Press, 1988
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Includes index
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For the first time in four decades, there exists an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the literature of the United States, from prehistoric cave narratives to the radical movements of the sixties and the experimentation of the eighties. This comprehensive volume-one of the century's most important books in American studies-extensively treats Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, Hemingway, and other long-cherished writers, while also giving considerable attention to recently discovered writers such as Kate Chopin and to literary movements and forms of writing not studied amply in the past. Informed by the most current critical and theoretical ideas, it sets forth a generation's interpretation of the rise of American civilization and culture. The Columbia Literary History of the United States contains essays by today's foremost scholars and critics, overseen by a board of distinguished editors headed by Emory Elliott of Princeton University.
These contributors reexamine in contemporary terms traditional subjects such as the importance of Puritanism, Romanticism, and frontier humor in American life and writing, but they also fully explore themes and materials that have only begun to receive deserved attention in the last two decades. Among these are the role of women as writers, readers, and literary subjects and the impact of writers from minority groups, both inside and outside the literary establishment.
Table of Contents
Preface General Introduction Note on the Text Acknowledgments Part One. Beginnings to 1810 I. A Key into the Languages of America II. The Prose and Poetry of Colonial America III. America in Transition IV. The Literature of the New Republic Part Two. 1810-1865 I. The Age in Perspective II. Cultural Diversity and Literary Forms III. Intellectual Movements and Social Change IV. The American Renaissance Part Three. 1865-1910 I. Signs of the Times II. Genre Deliberations III. Literary Diversities IV. Major Voices Part Four. 1910-1945 I. Contexts and Backgrounds II. Regionalism, Ethnicity, and Gender: Comparative Literary Cultures III. Fiction IV. Poetry and Criticism Part Five. 1945 to the Present I. The Postwar Era II. Forms and Genres III. The Present Notes on Contributors Index
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