The reinterpretation of American literature; some contributions toward the understanding of its historical development / edited for the American Literature Group of the Modern Language Association.
A call for a literary historian / Fred Lewis Pattee -- Factors in American literary history / Norman Foerster -- The frontier / Jay B. Hubbell -- The European background / Howard Mumford Jones -- The puritan tradition / Kenneth B. Murdock -- The romantic movement / Paul Kaufman -- The development of realism / Vernon Louis Parrington -- American history and American literary history / A. M. Schlesinger -- American literary history and American literature / Harry Hayden Clark
