utline of ‘RICAN TUREcharren 1 cuarren 2 © tesgmia Group Lines cuapren ‘adage nett po e iyo ly yma, ene han Corian ior a ee CHAPTER 5 per pir of ee er cence 6 Pad he td St of ei by vores carrer 7 SBN O-5a2-74S02-0 cuarrer 9 Set Mot Lecomte cuarren 10 ect cuarren 11 charren 12 cuapren 13) cHapren 14 cHarrer 15 ‘cuapeee 16 cuapren 17 Contents Colonial Beginnings ‘The Birth of a Nation ‘The Rise of a National Literature An American Renaissance ‘The Boston Brahmins ‘The Civil War and the “Gilded Ase! ‘The Bra of Realism and ‘Naturalism Al the Turn of the Century ‘The Turning Point of American Literature Poetry from 1900 through the 19308, The Writers of the “Lost Generation” ‘The Thirties ‘The Forties and Fifties The Sixties and Seventies The Twentieth-Century Black Writer Drama Popular Fiction Glossary of literary terms ‘Table of historical and literary events Index 6 a7 a sa as 97 209 1s va 161 vs 105 an 2s 235 248 250]GENERALL HISTORIE ign Newsinlc Sef ign Ccpcetde Adar sued Government inlbegining Assess peels Frat isto fr Captian Sui’ Gone Hic of gas, ie Exod the Sey Chapter One Colonial Beginnings Thesory of American literature begins inthe early 1600, lng before there were any "Americana. The east writer were Englishmen Aesribing the Eoglshexploationand colonization fhe New World (America) rwosas uaRtors Brief td Tru Report of he New-Foand Land of Vg (1588) was only the feof many such works, Back in England, people planning to moweto Virginia ot New England weil read th boos as rave guides. But this wax dangerous because sich Tooks ofen mined fete with fantasy" For example, one writer (ania wooo) lame that he had seen bonsin Mosacset, et probable thar these "true epors” hada second kind efreader. People ould certainly ead them as tales of adventure and exierent, Lake modern reader of science ftion’, they coukd enjoy imaginary ‘oyages to places they could never vst in eat. Theweiingsofearrars newt 1580-1631)profably sated readers ofboth Kinds Areal aventuter, he had fought the Tus in Hungary, wherehe was wounded and taken poner He wassold a slave and esaped by kl his master. In 1607. e help fou” Jamestown the Set English colony in America. Although the details “are not always eotrect, his Tine leon of Virgin (160) ana Diartionof New England (1616) ae facinating "advertiemens Whi ty to pera the reader sete in the New Word The Puritans for sastance sade his Desi of New Bond carly and then decided to sett deve i 1620. Smith wa often bows