VanSpanckeren, Kathryn <br/><br/>
Outline of American literature / 
By K. VanSpanckeren; Executive editor G. Clack; Design by T. A. Miksinski, Jr. 
 - Revised edition 
 - [Washington, D.C.] :  United States Department of State  Bureau of International Information Programs,  2001. 
 - 177 p. :  ill. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes glossary and index. 
<br/><br/>Cont.: 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, 1945-1990: The anti-tradition; American prose, 1945-1990: Realism and esperimentation; Contemporary American poetry; Contemporary American literature. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American literature--History and criticism<br/>Authors, American--Biography