TY - BOOK AU - Curry,Dean AU - Bode,Carl ED - University of Maryland TI - Highlights of American literature PY - 1995/// CY - Washington PB - English Language Programs Division KW - American literature KW - English language (Rhetoric) N1 - 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 ER -