Amy Berke

Robert Bleil

Jordan Cofer

Doug Davis

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

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