A History of American Literature 2nd Edition by Richard Gray ISBN 1405192283‎ 978-1405192286

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ISBN 10: 1405192283
ISBN 13:‎ 978-1405192286
Author: Richard Gray

Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present.

• The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of American literature available today
• Covers fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well as other forms of literature including folktale, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller, and science fiction
• Explores the plural character of American literature, including the contributions made by African American, Native American, Hispanic and Asian American writers
• Considers how our understanding of American literature has changed over the past?thirty years
• Situates American literature in the contexts of American history, politics and society
• Offers an invaluable introduction to American literature for students at all levels, academic and general readers

A History of American Literature 2nd Table of contents:

1 The First Americans: American Literature Before and During the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods

Imagining Eden

Native American Oral Traditions

Spanish and French Encounters with America

Anglo-American Encounters

Writing of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods

Puritan narratives

Challenges to the Puritan oligarchy

Some colonial poetry

Enemies within and without

Trends toward the secular and resistance

Toward the Revolution

Alternative voices of Revolution

Writing Revolution: Poetry, drama, fiction

2 Inventing Americas: The Making of American Literature

Making a Nation

The Making of American Myths

Myths of an emerging nation

The making of Western myth

The making of Southern myth

Legends of the Old Southwest

The Making of American Selves

The Transcendentalists

Voices of African-American identity

The Making of Many Americas

Native American writing

Oral culture of the Hispanic Southwest

African-American polemic and poetry

Abolitionist and pro-slavery writing

Abolitionism and feminism

African-American writing

The Making of an American Fiction and Poetry

The emergence of American narratives

Women writers and storytellers

Spirituals and folk songs

American poetic voices

3 Reconstructing the Past, Reimagining the Future: The Development of American Literature

Rebuilding a Nation

The Development of Literary Regionalism

From Adam to outsider

Regionalism in the West and Midwest

African-American and Native American voices

Regionalism in New England

Regionalism in the South

The Development of Literary Realism and Naturalism

Capturing the commonplace

Capturing the real thing

Toward Naturalism

The Development of Women’s Writing

Writing by African-American women

Writing and the condition of women

The Development of Many Americas

Things fall apart

Voices of resistance

Voices of reform

The immigrant encounter

4 Making It New: The Emergence of Modern American Literature

Changing National Identities

Between Victorianism and Modernism

The problem of race

Building bridges: Women writers

Critiques of American provincial life

Poetry and the search for form

The Inventions of Modernism

Imagism, Vorticism, and Objectivism

Making it new in poetry

Making it new in prose

Making it new in drama

Traditionalism, Politics, and Prophecy

The uses of traditionalism

Populism and radicalism

Prophetic voices

Community and Identity

Immigrant writing

Native American voices

The literature of the New Negro movement and beyond

Mass Culture and the Writer

Western, detective, and hardboiled fiction

Humorous writing

Fiction and popular culture

5 Negotiating the American Century: American Literature 

Toward a Transnational Nation

Formalists and Confessionals

From the mythological eye to the lonely “I” in poetry

From formalism to freedom in poetry

The uses of formalism

Confessional poetry

New formalists, new confessionals

Public and Private Histories

Documentary and dream in prose

Contested identities in prose

Crossing borders: Some women prose writers

Beats, Prophets, Aesthetes, and New Formalists

Rediscovering the American voice: The Black Mountain writers

Restoring the American vision: The San Francisco Renaissance

Recreating American rhythms: The beat generation

Reinventing the American self: The New York poets

Redefining American poetry: The New Formalists

Resisting orthodoxy: Dissent and experiment in fiction

The Art and Politics of Race

Defining a new black aesthetic

Defining a new black identity in prose

Defining a new black identity in drama

Telling impossible stories: Recent African-American fiction

Realism and its Discontents

Confronting the real, stretching the realistic in drama

New Journalists and dirty realists

Language and Genre

Watching nothing: Postmodernity in prose

The actuality of words: Postmodern poetry

Signs and scenes of crime, science fiction, and fantasy

Creating New Americas

Dreaming history: European immigrant writing

Remapping a nation: Chicano/a and Latino/a writing

Improvising America: Asian-American writing

New and ancient songs: The return of the Native American

After the Fall: American Literature since 9/11

Writing the crisis in prose

Writing the crisis in drama

Writing the crisis in poetry

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