Brief Contents
What is American Literature? An Overview 3
Unit 1 Native Voices: Resistance and Renewal in American Indian Literature 31
Unit 2 Exploring Borderlands: Contact and Conflict in North America 81
Unit 3 Utopian Promise: Puritan and Quaker Utopian Visions, 1620-1750 140
Unit 4 The Spirit of Nationalism: Declaring Independence, 1710-1850 190
Unit 5 Masculine Heroes: American Expansion, 1820-1900 243
Unit 6 American Gothic: Ambiguity and Anxiety in the Nineteenth Century 297
Unit 7 Slavery and Freedom: Race and Identity in Antebellum America 331
Unit 8 Regional Realism: Depicting the Local in American Literature, 1865-1900 380
Unit 9 Social Realism: Class Consciousness in American Literature, 1875-1920 432
Unit 10 Rhythms in Poetry: From the Beat of Blues to the Sounds of Everyday Speech 480
Unit 11 Modernist Portraits: Experimentations in Style, World War I to World War II 526
Unit 12 Migrant Struggle: The Bounty of the Land in Twentieth-Century American Literature, 1929-1995 572
Unit 13 Southern Renaissance: Reinventing the South 434
Unit 14 Becoming Visible: Ethnic Writers and the Literary Mainstream, 1945-1969 464
Unit 15 Poetry of Liberation: Protest Movements and American Counterculture 709
Unit 16 The Search for Identity: American Prose Writers, 1970-Present 758
Appendix: Writing About Literature A1