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The Literature of the United States of America

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  • © 1988
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Authors:
  1. Marshall Walker
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Part of the book series: Macmillan History of Literature (HL)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Terms of a Tradition

    • Marshall Walker
    Pages 1-14

  3. The colonies

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    Pages 15-31

  4. The revolution

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    Pages 32-42

  5. The waiting poem

    • Marshall Walker
    Pages 43-54

  6. Renaissance

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    Pages 55-79

  7. Realisms

    • Marshall Walker
    Pages 80-115

  8. Modernisms

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    Pages 116-167

  9. War and post-war

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    Pages 168-221

  10. Diversity

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    Pages 222-279

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 281-314
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About this book

American literature over the last four hundred years has developed distinctive qualities and traditions, partly engendered by the land itself. The rich variety of literature flourished as the land was colonised and cultivated. In this new edition Marshall Walker has updated his wide-ranging study of American literature by giving greater attention to poets from Hart Crane and e.e.Cummings to John Ashbery and A.R.Ammons and to novelists from William Burroughs and Kurt Vonnegut to John Irving. More space is given to drama, from the later works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller to the plays of Sam Shepard and David Mamet. The special concerns of Black, Jewish and Women writers are explored as this book demonstrates that American literary history can no longer be considered largely in terms of regional dominances.

About the author

MARSHALL WALKER has taught American literature for many years, formerly at Glasgow University and now at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, where he is Professor of English. His published works include Robert Penn Warren: A Vision Earned (1979).

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