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Title Lectures on American literature / Justin Quinn [and six others], editors ; Michal Peprník, William Bradley Vice, recenzovali ; Alena Jirsová, redakce ; Kateřina řezáčová, grafická úprava.

Publication Info. [Prague, Czech Republic] : Karolinum, [2011]
©2011

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Edition Third edition.
Description 1 online resource (320 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents ""Contents""; ""Note on third edition""; ""Introduction""; ""AMERICAN LITERATURE: BEGINNINGS TO 1914""; ""1 Historical Influences & Distinctive Features""; ""Alien Reality of the New World""; ""Religious Dissent""; ""Polycentrism""; ""Multiculturalism and Ethnicity""; ""2 Periodization of American Literature""; ""3 Earliest Monuments of American Literature""; ""Introduction""; ""General History of Virginia""; ""Of Plymouth Plantation""; ""4 The Shaping of the Puritan Self""; ""Introduction""; ""John Cotton and Antinomianism""; ""Poetry and Private Life: Anne Bradstreet""
""Survival and Damnation: Rowlandson and Wigglesworth""""Triumphs and Traps of Baroque Sensibility: Taylor and Cotton Mather""; ""5 The Eighteenth Century: The Great Awakenings & the Enlightenment""; ""Introduction""; ""Jonathan Edwards""; ""First and Second Great Awakenings""; ""Benjamin Franklin""; ""6 Revolution & the Early Republic""; ""Introduction""; ""Declarations of Independence""; ""Revolution and Religion""; ""The Republic of Letters""; ""American Utopias""; ""American Utopias and Voluntary Association""; ""Colonial Times in Retrospect""
""7 Inventing the Indians: Bryant, Cooper, Simms & LongfelloW""""Introduction""; ""William Cullen Bryant""; ""James Fenimore Cooper""; ""Simms & Longfellow""; ""8 American Gothic: Brockden Brown & Poe""; ""Introduction""; ""Charles Brocken Brown""; ""Edgar Allan Poe""; ""9 American Transcendentalism: Emerson & Thoreau""; ""Introduction""; ""Ralph Waldo Emerson""; ""Henry David Thoreau""; ""10 Late Romanticism: Hawthorne & Melville""; ""Introduction""; ""Nathaniel Hawthorne ""; ""Herman Melville""; ""11 The Birth of Modern Poetry: Whitman & Dickinson""; ""Introduction""; ""Walt Whitman""
""Emily Dickinson""""12 Mark Twain, the Tall Tale, & Local Color""; ""Introduction""; ""Mark Twain""; ""Other Local Color""; ""13 Fictions of Realism and Consciousness: Howells, & the James Brothers""; ""Introduction""; ""William Dean Howells""; ""Henry James""; ""William James""; ""14 Naturalism""; ""Introduction""; ""Henry Adams""; ""Frank Norris""; ""Stephen Crane""; ""Theodore Dreiser""; ""Jack London""; ""15 Abolitionism & African-American Literature from Beginnings through the Harlem Renaissance""; ""Introduction""; ""Abolitionism""; ""Frederick Douglass""; ""Washington and Du Bois""
""Harlem Renaissance""""16 Women�s Literature before World War I""; ""Introduction""; ""Margaret Fuller""; ""Elizabeth Cady Stanton""; ""Gilman and Others""; ""Chopin and Cather""; ""Edith Wharton""; ""17 Works Cited Beginnings to 1914""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Primary""; ""Secondary""; ""TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE""; ""18 Modernism, 1910 �1930""; ""Introduction""; ""Theater""; ""Tendencies in American Theater at the Turn of the Century""; ""The New Stagecraft and the Little Theatres""; ""The Washington Square Plays and the Theatre Guild""; ""The Provincetown Players""
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject American literature -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Added Author Quinn, Justin, 1968- editor.
Peprník, Michal, reviewer.
Vice, William Bradley, reviewer.
Jirsová, Alena, editor.
Řezáčová, Kateřina, cover designer.
Other Form: Print version: Lectures on American literature. Third edition. [Prague, Czech Republic] : Karolinum, ©2011 320 pages 9788024619965
ISBN 9788024623474 (electronic book)
8024623471 (electronic book)
9788024619965
8024619962
9788024619965