Rozakis, Laurie,  1952- <br/><br/>
The complete idiot's guide to American literature / 
by Laurie E. Rozakis. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Alpha Books,  c1999. 
 - 468 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Part 1: A New Land, A New Literature (1607–1840)<br/>America the Beautiful—and Talented<br/>In the Beginning: America's First Writers<br/>The Revolutionary Period<br/>Washington Irving: Big Daddy of American Fiction<br/>James Fenimore Cooper: Father of the American Novel<br/>Edgar Allan Poe: Father of the Modern Short Story<br/>Part 2: The New England Renaissance (1840–1855)<br/>Ralph Waldo Emerson and Transcendentalism<br/>Henry David Thoreau: A Natural Thinker<br/>Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Dark Romantic<br/>Herman Melville: Into the Deep<br/>Walt Whitman: The Good Gray Poet<br/>Emily Dickinson: The Belle of Amherst<br/>Part 3: Realism and Regionalism (1855–1914)<br/>Mark Twain: The Great American Humorist<br/>Kate Chopin and Women’s Voices<br/>Henry James and Psychological Realism<br/>Part 4: Modernism and Beyond (1914–Today)<br/>The Lost Generation: Hemingway and Fitzgerald<br/>The Harlem Renaissance: Hughes and Hurston<br/>Southern Voices: Faulkner and O’Connor<br/>Postwar Voices: Salinger, Miller, and Ellison<br/>Contemporary Writers: Morrison, Walker, Updike<br/> 
<br/><br/> What book begins "Call me Ishmael?" What's the name of Toni Morrison's first novel? Why is "The Catcher in the Rye" so named? Answers to these questions and thousands more can be found inside this one comprehensive but high-spirited book 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780028633787 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>99064167  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American literature--Outlines, syllabi, etc.<br/>American literature--Handbooks, manuals, etc.<br/>Literatura estadounidense
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS 94  / R893c 1999 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>810.9