An Outline of American Literature by Kathryn VanSpanckeren Table of Contents

			- Table of Content Acknowledgements Early American and Colonial Period to 1776 Democratic Origins and Revolutionary Writers, 1776-1820 The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Essayists and Poets The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914 Modernism and Experimentation: 1914-1945 American Poetry Since 1945: The Anti-Tradition American Prose Since 1945: Realism and Experimentation Authors Glossary An Outline of American Literature is a publication of the U.S. Information Agency and has been copied from their WWW-site and incorporated in the project From Revolution to Reconstruction (and what happened afterwards..). The original text has not been altered, but all useful links to other parts of the project have been made in the text.
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