Writing the Nation displays key literary movements and the American authors associated with the movement. Topics include late romanticism, realism, naturalism, modernism, and modern literature.

Contents:

Late Romanticism (1855-1870)

Realism (1865-1890)

Local Color (1865-1885)

Regionalism (1875-1895)

William Dean Howells

Ambrose Bierce

Henry James

Sarah Orne Jewett

Kate Chopin

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Naturalism (1890-1914)

Frank Norris

Stephen Crane

Turn of the Twentieth Century and the Growth of Modernism (1893 - 1914)

Booker T. Washington

Zane Grey

Modernism (1914 - 1945)

The Great War

Une Generation Perdue… (a Lost Generation)

A Modern Nation

Technology

Modernist Literature

Further Reading: Additional Secondary Sources

Robert Frost

Wallace Stevens

William Carlos Williams

Ezra Pound

Marianne Moore

T. S. Eliot

Edna St. Vincent Millay

E. E. Cummings

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ernest Hemingway

Arthur Miller

Southern Renaissance – First Wave

Ellen Glasgow

William Faulkner

Eudora Alice Welty

The Harlem Renaissance

Jessie Redmon Fauset

Zora Neale Hurston

Nella Larsen

Langston Hughes

Countee Cullen

Jean Toomer

American Literature Since 1945 (1945 - Present)

Southern Literary Renaissance - Second Wave (1945-1965)

The Cold War and the Southern Literary Renaissance

Economic Prosperity

The Civil Rights Movement in the South

New Criticism and the Rise of the MFA Program

Innovation

Tennessee Williams

James Dickey

Flannery O'Connor

Postmodernism

Theodore Roethke

Ralph Ellison

James Baldwin

Allen Ginsberg

Adrienne Rich

Toni Morrison

Donald Barthelme

Sylvia Plath

Don Delillo

Alice Walker

Leslie Marmon Silko

David Foster Wallace