TY - BOOK AU - Rozakis,Laurie TI - The complete idiot's guide to American literature AV - PS 94 R893c 1999 U1 - 810.9 PY - 1999/// CY - New York PB - Alpha Books KW - American literature KW - Outlines, syllabi, etc KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Literatura estadounidense N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part 1: A New Land, A New Literature (1607–1840) America the Beautiful—and Talented In the Beginning: America's First Writers The Revolutionary Period Washington Irving: Big Daddy of American Fiction James Fenimore Cooper: Father of the American Novel Edgar Allan Poe: Father of the Modern Short Story Part 2: The New England Renaissance (1840–1855) Ralph Waldo Emerson and Transcendentalism Henry David Thoreau: A Natural Thinker Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Dark Romantic Herman Melville: Into the Deep Walt Whitman: The Good Gray Poet Emily Dickinson: The Belle of Amherst Part 3: Realism and Regionalism (1855–1914) Mark Twain: The Great American Humorist Kate Chopin and Women’s Voices Henry James and Psychological Realism Part 4: Modernism and Beyond (1914–Today) The Lost Generation: Hemingway and Fitzgerald The Harlem Renaissance: Hughes and Hurston Southern Voices: Faulkner and O’Connor Postwar Voices: Salinger, Miller, and Ellison Contemporary Writers: Morrison, Walker, Updike N2 - 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 ER -