From Puritanism to Postmodernism

Table of contents
Preface


Part I. The Literature of British America
1. The Puritan Legacy
2. Awakening and Enlightenment


Part II. From Colonial Outpost to Cultural Province
3. Revolution and (In)Dependence
4. American Naissance
5. Yea-saying and Nay-saying


Part III. Native and Cosmopolitan Crosscurrents: From Local Color to Realism and Naturalism
6. Secession and Loyalty
7. Muckrakers and Early Moderns


Part IV. Modernism in the American Grain
8. Outland Darts and Homemade Worlds
9. The Second Flowering
10. Radical Reassessments
11. Strange Realities, Adequate Fictions


Index