From Puritanism to Postmodernism : A History of American Literature (Paperback)

Preface to the Routledge Classics edition ? Richard Ruland Foreword to the Routledge Classics edition ? Linda Wagner Martin Preface Part I The Literature of British America 1. The Puritan Legacy 2. Awakening and Enlightenment Part II From Colonial Oppressor to Cultural Province 3. Revolution and (In)dependence 4. American Naissance 5. Yea-saying and Nay-saying Part III Native and Cosmopolitan Crosscurrents: from Local Color to Realism and Naturalism 6. Secession and Loyalty 7. Muckrakers and Early Moderns Part IV Modernism in the American Grain 8. Outland Darts and Homemade Worlds 9. The Second Flowering 10. Radical Reassessments 11. Strange Realities, Adequate Fictions Epilogue - American Literary History in 1998: A Conversation with Josef Jar?b and Richard Ruland in Prague Index