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A handbook of American literature : a comprehensive study from colonial times to present day

This volume attempts to view the literature of the United States as part of the literature of the English-speaking people and as a part of world literature. Biographies of writers, summaries of plots, and footnoting have been minimized to devote the maximum attention to an examination of the literature itself. The book consists of studies of the various kinds of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry written during each of the following four historical time periods: from the first colonization to the young republic, 1720-1812; from the young republic to the Civil War, 1812-1865; from the Civil War to World War I, 1865-1914; and contemporary America, 1914 to the present. A bibliography and an index are included. (Jm).

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  • "The Puritan heritage - Benjamin Franklin - Revolution and the young republic - The American Dream - Nathaniel Hawthorne - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Poe and Whitman - Mark Twain - Henry James - Edith Wharton - Emily Dickinson - Contemporary America - Eugene O'Neill - Tennessee Williams ; Edward Albee - Robert Frost - Willa Cather - Vladimir Nabokov - Northrop Fry."
  • "This volume attempts to view the literature of the United States as part of the literature of the English-speaking people and as a part of world literature. Biographies of writers, summaries of plots, and footnoting have been minimized to devote the maximum attention to an examination of the literature itself. The book consists of studies of the various kinds of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry written during each of the following four historical time periods: from the first colonization to the young republic, 1720-1812; from the young republic to the Civil War, 1812-1865; from the Civil War to World War I, 1865-1914; and contemporary America, 1914 to the present. A bibliography and an index are included. (Jm)."@en

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  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
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  • "A handbook of American literature : a comprehensive study from colonial times to present day"@en
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  • "A handbook of American literature a comprehensive study from colonial times to the present day"@en
  • "A handbook of American literature : A comprehensive study from colonial times to the present day"
  • "A handbook of American literature : a comprehensive study from colonial times to the present day"@en
  • "A handbook of American literature : a comprehensive study from colonial times to the present day"
  • "A handbook of American literature"
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