Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present
American Literature from Reconstruction to the Contemporary EraBy Amy Berke, Robert Bleil, Jordan Cofer, Doug Davis
Length39h 49m
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Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present surveys the making and remaking of U.S. literary culture from Reconstruction through the contemporary era. Its compact yet expansive frame invites readers to trace how fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, essays, and other forms register migration, industrialization, war, racial struggle, gendered experience, regional identity, and globalization. By placing canonical currents alongside historically consequential challenges to them, the volume foregrounds American literature's formal variety and its continuing debates over who may speak for the nation. Amy Berke, Robert Bleil, Jordan Cofer, and Doug Davis bring a pedagogically attentive, collaborative perspective to this broad historical terrain. Their editorial approach situates literary works within the transformations that shaped modern American writing: Reconstruction and its aftermath, modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, labor and immigrant narratives, civil-rights-era activism, feminist interventions, Indigenous resurgence, and multicultural and transnational turns. The resulting range of voices clarifies that "the nation" is not a settled subject but an evolving and contested cultural imagination. Ideal for students and general readers alike, this volume offers an accessible route into more than a century and a half of literary innovation and social reflection. Readers will value its opportunity to compare styles, histories, and claims to belonging within a single volume, while developing a richer understanding of the conversations—and disagreements—that animate American literature.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length39 hrs 49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 21, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Visions of the Daughters of Albion (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake) (Annotated)
21 LATE ROMANTICISM (1855-1870)
31.1 Learning Outcomes
41.2 Introduction
51.3.1 Song of Myself
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61.3.2 “Oh Captain! My Captain!”
71.3.3 “CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY”
81.3.4 Reading and Review Questions
91.4.1 “I TASTE A LIQUOR NEVER BREWED”
101.4.2 “THE SOUL SELECTS HER OWN SOCIETY”
111.4.3 “BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH”
121.4.4 “MY LIFE HAD STOOD—A LOADED GUN”
131.4.4 Reading and Review Questions
141.5 KEY TERMS
152 REALISM (1865-1890)
162.1 Learning Outcomes
172.2.1 Local Color (1865-1885)
182.2.2 Regionalism (1875-1895)
192.3.1 “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
202.3.2 Selections From Roughing It
212.3.3 “The War Prayer”
222.3.4 Reading and Review Questions
232.4.1 “Editha”
242.4.2 Reading and Review Questions
252.5.1 “Chickamauga”
262.5.2 “Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge”
272.5.3 Reading and Review Questions
282.6.1 Daisy Miller: A Study
292.6.2 Reading and Review Questions
302.7.1 “A White Heron”
312.7.2 Reading and Review Questions
322.8.1 “At The ‘Cadian Ball”
332.8.2 ”The Storm”
342.8.3 Reading and Review Questions
352.9.1 “A New England Nun”
362.9.2 “The Revolt of ‘Mother’”
372.9.3 Reading and Review Questions
382.10.1 “The Passing of Grandison”
392.10.2 Reading and Review Questions
402.11.1 “The Yellow Wall-Paper”
412.11.2 Reading and Review Questions
422.12 Chapter Two Key Terms
433 NATURALISM (1890-1914)
443.1 Learning Outcomes
453.2 Introduction
463.3.1 “A Plea For Romantic Fiction”
473.3.2 Selections from McTeague (pt. 1)
483.3.2 Selections from McTeague (pt. 2)
493.3.2 Selections from McTeague (pt. 3)
503.3.3 Reading and Review Questions
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