Title: The literature of the United States /
Authors: Cunliffe, Marcus, 1922-1990
Publisher: Penguin Books,
Year: 1986
Subjects: American literature History and criticism
Contents: Introduction -- Colonial America -- Promises and problems of independence -- A trio of gentlemen: Irving, Cooper, Poe -- New England's day: Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne -- Melville and Whitman -- More New Englanders: the Brahmin poets and historians -- American humour and the rise of the West: Mark Twain and his predecessors -- Realism in prose: Howells to Dreiser -- The cosmopolitans: James, Wharton, Adams, Stein -- Women's voices -- The coming of age: poetry and fiction -- Southland -- Against and after the genteel tradition -- Modernist and post-modernist modes: fiction and poetry -- The American theatre -- America and the word -- Dates in American history.