INDICE: Preface and Acknowledgments. 1 The First Americans: American Literature During the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods. Imagining Eden. Writing ofthe Colonial and Revolutionary Periods. 2 Inventing Americas: The Making of American Literature 18001865. Making a Nation. The Making of American Myths. The Making of American Selves. The Making of Many Americas. The Making of an American Fiction and Poetry. 3 Reconstructing the Past, Reimagining the Future: The Development of American Literature 18651900. Rebuilding a Nation. The Development of Literary Regionalisms. The Development of Literary Realism and Naturalism. The Development of Women's Writing. The Development of Many Americas. 4Making It New: The Emergence of Modern American Literature 19001945. ChangingNational Identities. Between Victorianism and Modernism. The Inventions of Modernism. Traditionalism, Politics, and Prophecy. Community and Identity. Mass Culture and the Writer. 5 Negotiating the American Century: American Literature since 1945. Towards a Transnational Nation. Formalists and Confessionals. Public and Private Histories. Beats, Prophets, and Aesthetes. The Art and Politics of Race. Realism and Its Discontents. Language and Genre. Creating New Americas. Index.
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-9230-9
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 424
- Fecha Publicación: 07/01/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés