From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature

ISBN-13: 9781138402355 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Richard Ruland

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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

O autorze

Malcolm Bradbury (1932-2000) was Professor of Literature and American Studies first at the University of Birmingham (1961-65) and then at the University of East Anglia from 1970 until his retirement in 1995. Bradbury became a Commander of the British Empire in 1991 for services to literature and was made a Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours 2000, again for services to literature.

Richard Ruland is Professor Emeritus of English, American, and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. After teaching in the English and American Studies programs at Yale University for several years, he has been a member of the English Department faculty at Washington University from 1967 until his recent retirement.