The complete idiot's guide to American literature / by Laurie E. Rozakis.

By:

Rozakis, Laurie, 1952-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Alpha Books, c1999.Edition: 1st edDescription: 468 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780028633787

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

810.9

LOC classification:

PS 94 R893c 1999

Contents:

Part 1: A New Land, A New Literature (1607–1840) America the Beautiful—and Talented In the Beginning: America's First Writers The Revolutionary Period Washington Irving: Big Daddy of American Fiction James Fenimore Cooper: Father of the American Novel Edgar Allan Poe: Father of the Modern Short Story Part 2: The New England Renaissance (1840–1855) Ralph Waldo Emerson and Transcendentalism Henry David Thoreau: A Natural Thinker Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Dark Romantic Herman Melville: Into the Deep Walt Whitman: The Good Gray Poet Emily Dickinson: The Belle of Amherst Part 3: Realism and Regionalism (1855–1914) Mark Twain: The Great American Humorist Kate Chopin and Women’s Voices Henry James and Psychological Realism Part 4: Modernism and Beyond (1914–Today) The Lost Generation: Hemingway and Fitzgerald The Harlem Renaissance: Hughes and Hurston Southern Voices: Faulkner and O’Connor Postwar Voices: Salinger, Miller, and Ellison Contemporary Writers: Morrison, Walker, Updike

Summary: What book begins "Call me Ishmael?" What's the name of Toni Morrison's first novel? Why is "The Catcher in the Rye" so named? Answers to these questions and thousands more can be found inside this one comprehensive but high-spirited book

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	PS 94 R893c 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	00000193667

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: A New Land, A New Literature (1607–1840)
America the Beautiful—and Talented
In the Beginning: America's First Writers
The Revolutionary Period
Washington Irving: Big Daddy of American Fiction
James Fenimore Cooper: Father of the American Novel
Edgar Allan Poe: Father of the Modern Short Story
Part 2: The New England Renaissance (1840–1855)
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Transcendentalism
Henry David Thoreau: A Natural Thinker
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Dark Romantic
Herman Melville: Into the Deep
Walt Whitman: The Good Gray Poet
Emily Dickinson: The Belle of Amherst
Part 3: Realism and Regionalism (1855–1914)
Mark Twain: The Great American Humorist
Kate Chopin and Women’s Voices
Henry James and Psychological Realism
Part 4: Modernism and Beyond (1914–Today)
The Lost Generation: Hemingway and Fitzgerald
The Harlem Renaissance: Hughes and Hurston
Southern Voices: Faulkner and O’Connor
Postwar Voices: Salinger, Miller, and Ellison
Contemporary Writers: Morrison, Walker, Updike

What book begins "Call me Ishmael?" What's the name of Toni Morrison's first novel? Why is "The Catcher in the Rye" so named? Answers to these questions and thousands more can be found inside this one comprehensive but high-spirited book

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