A History Of American Literature – By Satish Kumar

Description A History Of American Literature – ,Original Author – , Author – Dr. Satish Kumar, ISBN Code – 978-81-89770-32-7 NUMBER OF PAGES-588 American Literature has been prescribed in degree and post degree course in Indian Universities. The aim of this book is to present a comprehensive and chronological development of American literature from the beginning to the first decade of the twenty first century.   CONTENTS: The Beginning of American Literature The Colonial Period The Revolutionary Period American Literature of the Nineteenth Century (1810-1890) Poetry (1810-1890) Edgar Allan Poe Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson and Sidney Lanier Prose Washington Irving and James Fennimore Cooper Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau Prose (1851-1890) Fiction (1810-1890) Washington Irving and James Fennimore Cooper Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe Harriet Beecher Stowe and Herman Melville Mark Twain W.D. Howells and Henry James Minor Novelists Modern Literature (1890-1960) Prose (1890-1960) Critical and Speculative Prose Poetry (1890-1960) Robert Frost Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot Some Important Poets (1890-1960) General Characteristics of American Novel from 1890-1960 Naturalism and Realism The Lost Generation Eminent Novelists (1890-1960) Drama (1890-1960) Eminent Dramatists – E. O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller Contemporary American Literature (1961-2010)