{"product_id":"a-brief-history-of-american-literature-hardback-9781405192316","title":"A Brief History of American Literature (Hardback) 9781405192316","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Brief History of American Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This is a wonderful book. Writing in an elegantly accessible style, Richard Gray offers the reader a truly comprehensive narrative of American literature from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. The entire range, diversity, and richness of American writing are made available here in a single, superbly authoritative volume.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eAndrew Hook\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Glasgow  \u003cp\u003e\"Drawing upon a lifetime of reading and research in this field, and covering a huge range of material from the \u003ci\u003eBay Psalm Book\u003c\/i\u003e to Walter Mosley, Richard Gray's \u003ci\u003eLiterature of the United States\u003c\/i\u003e offers an excellent survey that holds the American cultural tradition in a compelling, synoptic whole.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003ePaul Giles\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Sydney\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Richard Gray's \u003ci\u003eA Brief History of American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary achievement. Gray offers us a fascinating and nuanced overview of United States writing, employing literary sensibility to examine a range of periods and genres.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Castillo\u003c\/b\u003e, King's College, London\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRichard Gray (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781405192316, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 14 January 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e420 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 2.9 cm, 0.925 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eA Brief History of American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e offers students and general readers a concise and up-to-date history of the full range of American writing from its origins until the present day. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRepresents the only up-to-date concise history of American literature \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction, as well as looking  at other forms of literature including folktales, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller and science fiction\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders how our understanding of American literature has changed over the past twenty years\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers students an abridged version of \u003ci\u003eHistory of American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, a book widely considered the standard   survey text \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides an invaluable introduction to the subject for students of American literature, American studies and all those interested in the literature and culture of the United States\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments ix\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 The First Americans: American Literature During the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImagining Eden 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWriting of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Inventing Americas: The Making of American Literature 1800–1865 47\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking a Nation 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Making of American Myths 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Making of American Selves 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Making of Many Americas 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Making of an American Fiction and Poetry 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Reconstructing the Past, Reimagining the Future: The Development of American Literature 1865–1900 115\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Rebuilding a Nation 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Development of Literary Regionalisms 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Development of Literary Realism and Naturalism 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Development of Women’s Writing 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Development of Many Americas 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Making It New: The Emergence of Modern American Literature 1900–1945 159\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanging National Identities 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBetween Victorianism and Modernism 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Inventions of Modernism 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraditionalism, Politics, and Prophecy 211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunity and Identity 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMass Culture and the Writer 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Negotiating the American Century: American Literature since 1945 249\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTowards a Transnational Nation 249\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormalists and Confessionals 249\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublic and Private Histories 263\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeats, Prophets, and Aesthetes 281\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Art and Politics of Race 296\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRealism and Its Discontents 314\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage and Genre 328\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCreating New Americas 345\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex 373\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literature: history \u0026amp; 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