American Literature and Culture

Highlights of American Literature

Carl Bode, editor advanced literature

Table of Contents

This is a revised popular collection that includes the following main sections: "National Beginnings" from Franklin to Hawthorne, "Romanticism and Reason" from Emerson to James, "The American Short Story" from Bierce to Stockton, "Realism and Reaction" from Dreiser to Steinbeck, "Modern Voices in Prose and Poetry" including Hemingway, Lowell, Roethke, Jerrell and Wright. A section dealing with American drama and suggestions to the teacher conclude the volume. This anthology provides a good overview of American literature, its principal writers and writings, up to the mid-sixties. It can be used as a course text in advanced EFL classes in American literature, as well as an introductory text for American Studies.

text 288 pp