Outline of American Literature
1. Early American and Colonial Period to 1776
LITERATURE IN THE SOUTHERN AND MIDDLE COLONIES
2. Democratic Origins and Revolutionary Writers, 1776-1820
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT
NEOCLASSISM : EPIC, MOCK EPIC, AND SATIRE
WRITERS OF FICTION
WOMAN AND MINORITIES
3. The Romantic Period, 1820-1860, Essayist and Poets
TRANSCENDENTALISM
THE BRAHMIN POETS
TWO REFORMERS
4. The Romantic Period, 1820-1860, Fiction
THE ROMANCE
WOMAN WRITERS AND REFORMERS
3. The Rise of Realism, 1860-1914
FRONTIER HUMOR AND REALISM
LOCAL COLORISTS
MIDWESTERN REALISM
COSMOPOLITAN NOVELISTS
NATURALISM AND MUCKRAKING
TWO WOMAN REGIONAL NOVELISTS
THE RISE OF BLACK AMERICAN LITERATURE
6. Moernism and Experimentation, 1914-1945
MODERNISM
POETRY 1914-1945 : EXPERIMENTS IN FORM
BETWEEN THE WARS
PROSE WRITING, 1914-1945 : AMERICAN REALISM
NOVELS OF SOCIAL AWARENESS
THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
LITERARY CURRENTS : THE FUGITIVES AND NEW CRITICISM
20TH-CENTURY AMERICAN DRAMA
7. AMERICAN Poetry Since 1945 : The Anti-Tradition
TRADITIONALISM
IDIOSYNCRATIC POETS
EXPERIMENTAL POETRY
WOMAN AND MULTIETHINIC POETS
NEW DIRECTIONS
8. American Prose Since 1945 : Realism and Experimentation
THE REALIST LEGACY AND THE LATE 1940s
THE AFFLUENT BUT ALIENATES 1950s
THE TURBULENT BUT CREATIVE 1960s
THE 1970s AND 1980s : NEW DIRECTIONS
THE NEW REGIONALISM