The Complete Idiot's Guide to American LiteratureYou're no idiot, of course. You know that Samuel Clemens had a better-known pen name, Moby Dick is a famous whale, and the Raven only said,"Nevermore." But when it comes to understanding the great works of Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, you'd rather rent the videos than head to your local library. Don't tear up your library card yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide® to American Literature teaches you all about the rich tradition of American prose and poetry, so you can fully appreciate its magnificent diversity. |
Contents
1750â1800 The Revolutionary Period | |
Thomas Jefferson 1743â1826 | |
Thomas Paine 1737â1809 | |
Washington Irving | |
The Big Sleep | |
A Great Novel | |
Faulknerâs Style | |
Make It New | |
Pound of Flesh | |
Big Man on Campus | |
A Pack of Poets 1900â1960 | |
cummings e | |
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869â1935 | |
Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better | |
So Whatâs It All About? | |
The Raven | |
Part 2The New England Renaissance 1840â1855 | |
Henry David Thoreau 1817â1862 | |
Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804â1864 | |
You Play You | |
1819â1891 Herman Melville | |
Swimming with the Fishes | |
Frederick Douglass 1817â1895 | |
Working Without a | |
Emily Dickinson | |
Remembrance of Flings Past? | |
Speaking of Death | |
Stephen Crane 1871â1900 | |
The March of Time | |
So What Did You Do in the War Daddy? | |
To Build a Fire | |
The Local Colorists | |
Edith Wharton and Henry | |
Henry James 1843â1916 | |
Part 5Modern Literature 19151945 | |
Macho Macho ManâErnest Hemingway 1899â1961 | |
The Old Man and the | |
The Beautiful and the Damned | |
The Harlem Renaissance 1915â1929 | |
Cult Figures 1945Present | |
More Than I Needed to Know | |
The Catcher in the | |
Horror and Humor 19301960 | |
Make Me Laugh Make Me | |
Part 6Contemporary Literature 1946Present | |
Erica Jong b 1942 | |
Elie Wiesel b 1928 | |
Contemporary AfricanAmerican Literature | |
Gwendolyn Brooks b 1917 | |
Modern Canadian Literature | |
NativeAmerican LatinoAmerican and AsianAmerican | |
Todayâs LatinoAmerican Writers | |
New Frontiers | |
Mary Gordon b 1948 | |
Appendix A The Authors and Their Most Famous Works | |
Dickinson Emily | |
Jewett Sarah Orne | |
Plath Sylvia | |
Appendix B Additional Reading | |
Rebel with a CauseâFrederick Douglass 1817â1895 | |
Timeline | |
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| Title | The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE |
| Author | Laurie Rozakis |
| Publisher | Penguin, 1999 |
| ISBN | 1101198818, 9781101198810 |
| Length | 496 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Collections / American / General Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / Books & Reading |
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