The Outline of American literature, newly revised, traces the paths of American narrative, fiction, poetry and drama as they move from pre-colonial times into the present, through such literary movements as romanticism, realism and experimentation.
Modernism and Experimentation: 1914-1945
American Poetry, 1945-1990: The Anti-Tradition
American Prose, 1945-1990: Realism and Experimentation
Contemporary American Poetry
Contemporary American Literature
Here are some of the American authors whose work – in the past decades – has attracted millions of enthusiastic readers.
15 essays by a diverse group of contemporary American writers, poets, essayists, and intellectuals, on how being an American has affected their decision to write and what they have written.