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1 The First Americans:American Literature During the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 1

Imagining Eden 1

Writing of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 1

2 Inventing Americas:The Making of American Literature 1800-1865 50

Making a Nation 50

The Making of American Myths 50

The Making of American Selves 63

The Making of Many Americas 76

The Making of an American Fiction and Poetry 97

3 Reconstructing the Past,Reimagining the Future:The Development of American Literature 1865-1900 124

Rebuilding a Nation 124

The Development of Literary Regionalisms 124

The Development of Literary Realism and Naturalism 140

The Development of Women's Writing 154

The Development of Many Americas 160

4 Making It New:The Emergence of Modern American Literature 1900-1945 172

Changing National Identities 172

Between Victorianism and Modernism 172

The Inventions of Modernism 191

Traditionalism,Politics,and Prophecy 229

Community and Identity 246

Mass Culture and the Writer 263

5 Negotiating the American Century:American Literature Since 1945 271

Towards a Transnational Nation 271

Formalists and Confessionals 271

Public and Private Histories 286

Beats,Prophets,and Aesthetes 306

The Art and Politics of Race 322

Realism and Its Discontents 342

Language and Genre 358

Creating New Americas 377

Index 408