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Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present

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Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present

Writing the Nation: A Concise Guide to American Literature 1865 to Present is a text that surveys key literary movements and the American authors associated with the movement. Topics include late romanticism, realism, naturalism, modernism, and modern literature.

Literature and LiteracyHumanities
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Amy Berke, Robert Bleil, Jordan Cofer, and Doug Davis
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LibreTexts
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Contents· 74 sections
  1. 01: Late Romanticism (1855-1870)
  2. 1.01: Introduction
  3. 1.02: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
  4. 1.03: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
  5. 1.04: Key Terms
  6. 02: Realism (1865-1890)
  7. 2.01: Introduction
  8. 2.02: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
  9. 2.03: William Dean Howells (1837 - 1920)
  10. 2.04: Ambrose Bierce (1842circa 1914)
  11. 2.05: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
  12. 2.06: Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909)
  13. 2.07: Kate Chopin (1850 - 1904)
  14. 2.08: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852 - 1930)
  15. 2.09: Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858 - 1932)
  16. 2.10: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 - 1935)
  17. 2.11: Chapter Two Key Terms
  18. 03: Naturalism (1890-1914)
  19. 3.01: Introduction
  20. 3.02: Frank Norris (1870 - 1902)
  21. 3.03: Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900)
  22. 3.04: Jack London (1876 - 1916)
  23. 3.05: Chapter Three Key Terms
  24. 04: Turn of the Twentieth Century and the Growth of Modernism (1893 - 1914)
  25. 4.01: Introduction
  26. 4.02: Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
  27. 4.03: W.E.B. Du Bois (1868 - 1963)
  28. 4.04: Zane Grey (1872 - 1939)
  29. 4.05: Chapter Four Key Terms
  30. 05: Modernism (1914 - 1945)
  31. 5.01: Introduction
  32. 5.02: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
  33. 5.03: Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
  34. 5.04: William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
  35. 5.05: Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
  36. 5.06: Marianne Moore (1887 - 1972)
  37. 5.07: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
  38. 5.08: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
  39. 5.09: e.e. Cummings (1894 - 1962)
  40. 5.10: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)
  41. 5.11: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
  42. 5.12: Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005)
  43. 5.13: Southern Renaissance First Wave (1920 1940)
  44. 5.14: Ellen Glasgow (1873 - 1945)
  45. 5.15: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
  46. 5.16: Eudora Alice Welty (1909 - 2001)
  47. 5.17: The Harlem Renaissance
  48. 5.18: Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882 - 1961)
  49. 5.19: Zora Neale Hurston (1891 - 1960)
  50. 5.20: Nella Larsen (1891 - 1964)
  51. 5.21: Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967)
  52. 5.22: Countee Cullen (1903 - 1946)
  53. 5.23: Jean Toomer (1894 - 1967)
  54. 5.24: Chapter Five Key Terms
  55. 06: American Literature Since 1945 (1945 - Present)
  56. 6.01: Introduction
  57. 6.02: Southern Literary Renaissance - Second Wave (1945-1965)
  58. 6.03: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983)
  59. 6.04: James Dickey (1923 - 1997)
  60. 6.05: Flannery OConnor (1925 - 1964)
  61. 6.06: Postmodernism
  62. 6.07: Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963)
  63. 6.08: Ralph Ellison (1914 - 1994)
  64. 6.09: James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
  65. 6.10: Adrienne Rich (1929 - 2012)
  66. 6.11: Allen Ginsberg (1926 - 1997)
  67. 6.12: Toni Morrison (1931 - )
  68. 6.13: Donald Barthelme (1931 - 1989)
  69. 6.14: Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963)
  70. 6.15: Don Delillo (1936 - )
  71. 6.16: Alice Walker (1944 - )
  72. 6.17: Leslie Marmon Silko (1948 - )
  73. 6.18: David Foster Wallace (1962 - 2008)
  74. 6.19: Chapter Six Key Terms