Highlights of American literature / Ed. Dean Curry. - Washington : English Language Programs Division, 1995. - 288 p.

National beginnings - From Benjamin Franklin to Nathaniel Hawthorne; Romanticism and reason - From Ralph Waldo emerson to Henry James; The American short story: 19th century developments - Ambrose Bierce to Frank R. Stokton; Realism and reaction - from Theodore Dreiser to John Steinbeck; Modern voices in prose and poetry - From Ernest Hemingway to Robert Lowell et al.; Modern American Drama

Based upon a core manuscript by Dr. Carl Bode, University of Maryland


American literature
English language (Rhetoric)