Columbia Literary History of the United States

PrefaceGeneral IntroductionNote on the TextAcknowledgmentsPart One. Beginnings to 1810I. A Key into the Languages of AmericaII. The Prose and Poetry of Colonial AmericaIII. America in TransitionIV. The Literature of the New RepublicPart Two. 1810-1865I. The Age in PerspectiveII. Cultural Diversity and Literary FormsIII. Intellectual Movements and Social ChangeIV. The American RenaissancePart Three. 1865-1910I. Signs of the TimesII. Genre DeliberationsIII. Literary DiversitiesIV. Major VoicesPart Four. 1910-1945I. Contexts and BackgroundsII. Regionalism, Ethnicity, and Gender: Comparative Literary CulturesIII. FictionIV. Poetry and CriticismPart Five. 1945 to the PresentI. The Postwar EraII. Forms and GenresIII. The PresentNotes on ContributorsIndex