II. Regionalism, Ethnicity, and Gender: Comparative Literary Cultures 759
Regionalism: A diminished thing 761
Afro-American Literature 785
Mexican American Literature 800
Asian American Literature 811
Women Writers Between the Wars 822
III. Fiction 843
The diversity of American Fiction 845
Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein 873
William Faulkner 887
IV. Poetry and Criticism 911
The diversity of American Poetry 913
Robert Frost 937
Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot 947
William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens 972
Literary Criticism 993
Part Five 1945 to the present
Associate editor, Marjorie Perloff
I. The postwar era 1021
Culture, power, and society 1023
The new philosophy 1045
Literature as radical statement 1060
II. Forms and Genres 1077
Poetry 1079
Twentieth-century dram 1101