Writing the Nation displays key literary movements and the American authors associated with the movement. Topics include late romanticism, realism, naturalism, modernism, and modern literature.
Contents:
Late Romanticism (1855–1870)
Realism (1865–1890)
Local Color (1865–1885)
Regionalism (1875–1895)
William Dean Howells
Ambrose Bierce
Henry James
Sarah Orne Jewett
Kate Chopin
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Naturalism (1890–1914)
Frank Norris
Stephen Crane
Turn of the Twentieth Century and the Growth of Modernism (1893 – 1914)
Booker T. Washington
Zane Grey
Modernism (1914 – 1945)
The Great War Une Generation Perdue… (a Lost Generation)
A Modern Nation
Technology
Modernist Literature
Further Reading: Additional Secondary Sources
Robert Frost
Wallace Stevens
William Carlos Williams
Ezra Pound
Marianne Moore
T. S. Eliot
Edna St. Vincent Millay
E. E. Cummings
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Arthur Miller
Southern Renaissance – First Wave
Ellen Glasgow
William Faulkner
Eudora Alice Welty
The Harlem Renaissance
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Zora Neale Hurston
Nella Larsen
Langston Hughes
Countee Cullen
Jean Toomer
American Literature Since 1945 (1945 – Present)
Southern Literary Renaissance – Second Wave (1945–1965)
The Cold War and the Southern Literary Renaissance
Economic Prosperity
The Civil Rights Movement in the South
New Criticism and the Rise of the MFA Program
Innovation
Tennessee Williams
James Dickey
Flannery O'Connor
Postmodernism
Theodore Roethke
Ralph Ellison
James Baldwin
Allen Ginsberg
Adrienne Rich
Toni Morrison
Donald Barthelme
Sylvia Plath
Don Delillo
Alice Walker
Leslie Marmon Silko
David Foster Wallace
