From Puritanism to postmodernism : a history of American literature /

Ruland, Richard, 1932-,

From Puritanism to postmodernism : a history of American literature / [print] Richard Ruland and Malcolm Bradbury. - New York, New York : Penguin Books, (c)1992. - xxi, 456 pages ; 20 cm.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Viking, 1991.



Part 1: The literature of British America -- The Puritan Legacy -- Awakening and enlightenment -- Part 2: From colonial outpost to cultural province -- Revolution and (in)dependence -- American naissance -- Yea-saying and nay-saying -- Part 3: Native and cosmopolitan crosscurrants -- from local color to realism and naturalism -- Secession and loyalty -- Muckrakers and early moderns -- Part 4: Modernism and the American grain -- Outland darts and homemade worlds -- The second flowering -- Radical reassessments -- Strange realities, adequate fictions.



9780140144352


American literature--History and criticism.

PS88 PS88.B798.F766 1992