For the first time in four decades, there exists an
authoritative and up-to-date survey of the literature of the United
States, from prehistoric cave narratives to the radical movements
of the sixties and the experimentation of the eighties.
This comprehensive volume -- one of the century's most important
books in American studies -- extensively treats Hawthorne,
Melville, Dickinson, Hemingway, and other long-cherished writers,
while also giving considerable attention to recently discovered
writers such as Kate Chopin and to literary movements and forms of
writing not studied amply in the past. Informed by the most current
critical and theoretical ideas, it sets forth a generation's
interpretation of the rise of American civilization and
culture.
The "Columbia Literary History of the United States" contains
essays by today's foremost scholars and critics, overseen by a
board of distinguished editors headed by Emory Elliott of Princeton
University. These contributors reexamine in contemporary terms
traditional subjects such as the importance of Puritanism,
Romanticism, and frontier humor in American life and writing, but
they also fully explore themes and materials that have only begun
to receive deserved attention in the last two decades. Among these
are the role of women as writers, readers, and literary subjects
and the impact of writers from minority groups, both inside and
outside the literary establishment.
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