VanSpanckeren Kathryn. USA Literature in Brief

Bureau of International Information Programs, US Department of State. — 40 p.USA Literature in Brief pinpoints and describes the contributions to American literature of some of the best-recognized American poets, novelists, philosophers and dramatists from pre-Colonial days through the present.Early American Writing
Literary Independence: James Fenimore Cooper
New England Romanticism: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson
The First Great Novelists: Herman Melville
The Rise of Realism: Mark Twain, Henry James
Modernism and Experimentation: Thomas Stearns Eliot, Robert Lee Frost, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Harrison Faulkner, Eugene O’Neill
The Flowering of the Individual: Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, John Updike, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison, Louise Glück, Billy Collins, Annie Proulx, Richard Ford, Amy Tan, Sherman Alexie.Kathryn VanSpanckeren, professor of English at the University of Tampa, has lectured in American literature widely abroad, and is former director of the Fulbright-sponsored Summer Institute in American Literature for international scholars. Her publications include poetry and scholarship. She received her Bachelors degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Ph.D. from Harvard University.