A History of American Literature Since 1870
by Fred Lewis Pattee
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Contents
- Preface
- Chapter I. The Second Discovery of America
- Chapter II. The Laughter of the West
- Chapter III. Mark Twain
- Chapter IV. Bret Harte
- Chapter V. The Discovery of Pike County
- Chapter VI. Joaquin Miller
- Chapter VII. The Transition Poets
- Chapter VIII. Rise of the Nature Writers
- Chapter IX. Walt Whitman
- Chapter X. The Classical Reaction
- Chapter XI. Recorders of the New England Decline
- Chapter XII. The New Romance
- Chapter XIII. Later Poets of the South
- Chapter XIV. The Era of Southern Themes and Writers
- Chapter XV. The Later Poets
- Chapter XVI. The Triumph of the Short Story
- Chapter XVII. Shifting Currents of Fiction
- Chapter XVIII. The Essayists