A History Of American Literature – By Satish Kumar

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A History Of American Literature – ,Original Author – , Author – Dr. Satish Kumar, ISBN Code – 978-81-89770-32-7

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American Literature has been prescribed in degree and post degree course in Indian Universities. The aim of this book is to present a comprehensive and chronological development of American literature from the beginning to the first decade of the twenty first century.

CONTENTS:

The Beginning of American Literature

The Colonial Period

The Revolutionary Period

American Literature of the Nineteenth Century (1810-1890)

Poetry (1810-1890)

Edgar Allan Poe

Walt Whitman

Emily Dickinson and Sidney Lanier

Prose

Washington Irving and James Fennimore Cooper

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

Prose (1851-1890)

Fiction (1810-1890)

Washington Irving and James Fennimore Cooper

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe

Harriet Beecher Stowe and Herman Melville

Mark Twain

W.D. Howells and Henry James

Minor Novelists

Modern Literature (1890-1960)

Prose (1890-1960)

Critical and Speculative Prose

Poetry (1890-1960)

Robert Frost

Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot

Some Important Poets (1890-1960)

General Characteristics of American Novel from 1890-1960

Naturalism and Realism

The Lost Generation

Eminent Novelists (1890-1960)

Drama (1890-1960)

Eminent Dramatists – E. O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller

Contemporary American Literature (1961-2010)