The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914
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Frontier humor and realism
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Cosmopolitan novelists - Naturalism and Muckraking
The "Chicago School" of poetry
Two women regional novelists
The rise of black American literature
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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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