American Prose Since 1945: Realism and Experimentation

1. Introduction
2. The realist legacy and the late 1940s
3. The affluent but alienated 1950s
4. The turbulent but creative 1960s
5. The 1970s and 1980s: New directions
6. The new regionalism
7. Authors

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    • Acknowledgements
    • Early American and Colonial Period to 1776
    • Democratic Origins and Revolutionary Writers, 1776-1820
    • The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Essayists and Poets
    • The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction
    • The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914
    • Modernism and Experimentation: 1914-1945
    • American Poetry Since 1945: The Anti-Tradition
    • American Prose Since 1945: Realism and Experimentation
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