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| A New Land, a New Literature (1607-1840) | |
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| America the Beautiful--and Talented | |
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| What's So American About American Literature? | |
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| Write Away | |
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| Words to the Wise | |
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| In the Beginning: America's First Writers (1607-1750) | |
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| Saints and Strangers | |
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| William Bradford (1590-1657) | |
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| Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) | |
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| Edward Taylor (1645-1729) | |
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| Cotton Mather (1663-1728) | |
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| John Smith (1580-1631) | |
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| Don't Tread on Me: The Revolutionary Period (1750-1800) | |
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| The Dream Team | |
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| J. Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur (1735-1813) | |
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| Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) | |
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| Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) | |
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| Thomas Paine (1737-1809) | |
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| The (Cultural) State of the Union | |
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| The Big Daddy of American Literature: Washington Irving (1789-1851) | |
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| Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride | |
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| A Declaration of Independence | |
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| The Big Kahuna | |
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| Pumpkin Head | |
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| The Big Sleep | |
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| Going to the Devil | |
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| Father of the American Novel: James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) | |
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| Green Acres Is the Place for Me | |
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| Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better | |
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| Bumpp and Grind | |
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| My Hero: The Last of the Mohicans | |
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| So Why Not Just Watch the Movie? | |
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| Sn of a Bestseller: The Deerslayer | |
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| So What's It All About? | |
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| The Broken Twig Series | |
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| Life on the Ledge: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) | |
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| A Rocky Start | |
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| Great Balls of Fire | |
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| For the Birds: The Raven | |
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| The Philosophy of Composition | |
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| Annabel Lee | |
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| The Cask of Amontillado | |
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| Gilt Trip: The Gold Bug | |
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| Dick Lit | |
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| The New England Renaissance (1840-1855) | |
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| The Sage of Concord: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) | |
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| Transcendentalism | |
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| Where's Waldo? | |
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| Nature | |
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| The American Scholar | |
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| Divinity School Address | |
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| The Fame Game | |
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| Master of His Domain | |
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| Nature Boy: Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) | |
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| Oh Henry! | |
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| A Travel Guide for the Mind: Walden | |
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| On the Duty of Civil Disobedience | |
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| Nate the Great: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) | |
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| Begin at the Very Beginning | |
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| Gimme an A | |
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| You Play, You Pay | |
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| Romancing the Novel | |
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| Short, but Not Sweet: Hawthorne's Stories | |
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| Just Don't Call Me Hermie: Herman Melville (1819-1891) | |
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| Man Overboard | |
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| A Whale of a Tale: Moby Dick | |
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| Swimming with the Fishes | |
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| Life Before Xerox: Bartleby the Scrivener | |
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| The War Between the States (1855-1865) | |
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| The Little Woman Who Started This Great Big War: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) | |
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| The Beecher Preachers | |
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| The Price of Fame | |
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| Uncle Tom's Cabin: Life Among the Lowly | |
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| The Medium Is the Message | |
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| The Mighty Mite | |
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| Rebel with a Cause: Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) | |
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| Bound and Determined | |
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| The Man with the Iron Heart | |
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| Let Freedom Ring | |
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| True Grit | |
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| Working Without a Net | |
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| That Barbaric Yawp: Walt Whitman (1819-1892) | |
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| Letting It All Hang Out | |
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| Soul Man | |
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| I Sing the Body Electric | |
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| Black-Widow Blues: A Noiseless Patient Spider | |
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| When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd | |
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| Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking | |
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| Advertisements for Myself | |
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| The Big Mama of American Literature: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) | |
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| Without Feathers | |
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| Write Away | |
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| Not Waving, But Drowning | |
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| Remembrance of Flings Past? | |
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| A Snake in the Grass | |
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| A Date with Destiny | |
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| Speaking of Death | |
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| Realism and the Frontier (1865-1915) | |
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| Samuel Clemens: A.K.A. Mark Twain (1835-1910) | |
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| Fun and Games | |
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| Ever the Twain Shall Meet | |
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| "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" | |
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| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | |
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| Mark My Words | |
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| Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain | |
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| Life Is Short and Then You Die: Stephen Crane (1871-1900) | |
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| Even Stephen | |
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| The March of Time | |
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| Only the Good Die Young: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets | |
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| The Red Badge of Courage | |
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| So What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? | |
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| The Open Boat | |
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| Rub-a-Dub-Dub: Four Men in a Tub | |
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| Three on a Match: The Naturalists Jack London, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser (1890-1925) | |
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| The Law of the Claw: Naturalism | |
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| Jack London (1876-1916) | |
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| The Call of the Wile | |
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| To Build a Fire | |
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| Frank Norris (1870-1902) | |
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| McTeague, a Story of San Francisco | |
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| No Teddy Bear: Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) | |
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| An American Tragedy | |
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| Color My World: The Local Colorists | |
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| In Living Color | |
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| Bret Harte (1836-1902) | |
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| Mary Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) | |
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| Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) | |
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| Down in the Bayou: Kate Chopin (1851-1904) | |
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| The Awakening | |
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| Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) | |
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| Prairie Tales: Willa Cather (1873-1947) | |
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| Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: Edith Wharton and Henry James | |
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| High Society: Edith Wharton (1862-1937) | |
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| Birds in Gilded Cages | |
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| Ethan Frome | |
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| Henry James (1843-1916) | |
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| Culture Vulture | |
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| Bet You Can't Read Just One | |
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| Edie and Hank | |
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| Modern Literature (1915-1945) | |
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| Macho, Macho Man: Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) | |
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| Hunt and Peck | |
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| The War to End All Wars | |
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| Home Not-So-Sweet Home | |
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| A Shooting Star | |
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| Death in the Afternoon | |
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| Less Is More | |
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| Hemingway's Code | |
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| The Sun Also Rises | |
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| The One That Got Away: The Old Man and the Sea | |
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| The Fickle Finger of Fame | |
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| Party Hearty: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) | |
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| Great Scott! | |
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| The Beautiful and the Damned | |
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| Paradise Lost | |
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| Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat | |
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| The Jazz Age: "The Greatest, Gaudiest Spree in History" | |
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| The Great Gatsby | |
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| A Great Novel | |
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| Mint Juleps, Moonlight, and Madness: William Faulkner (1897-1962) | |
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| Southern Comfort | |
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| My World, and Welcome to It | |
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| Pushing the Envelope: Faulkner's Style | |
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| Shrink Lit: Faulkner's Top Ten | |
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| The Sound and the Fury | |
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| Three Big Deals: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and John Steinbeck | |
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| Pound Cake | |
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| Make It New! | |
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| Pound of Flesh | |
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| T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) | |
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| The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | |
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| The Waste-Land | |
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| Big Man on Campus | |
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| John Steinbeck (1902-1968) | |
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| The Grapes of Wrath | |
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| A Pack of Poets (1900-1960) | |
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| Robert Frost (1874-1963) | |
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| Frosty the Poet | |
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| Sound of Sense | |
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| e(dward). e(stlin). cummings (1894-1962) | |
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| Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond | |
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| Here's to You, Mr. Robinson: Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) | |
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| The Chicago Poets: Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters, and Vachel Lindsay | |
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| The Harlem Renaissance (1915-1929) | |
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| The Place to Be | |
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| Richard Wright (1908-1960) | |
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| Native Son | |
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| Langston Hughes (1902-1967) | |
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| Countee Cullen (1903-1946) | |
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| Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) | |
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| Jean Toomer (1894-1967) | |
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| Claude McKay (1890-1948) | |
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| Additional Voices | |
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| Cult Figures (1945-Present) | |
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| The Beat Goes On | |
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| William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) | |
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| Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) | |
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| Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) | |
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| More Than I Needed to Know | |
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| Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) | |
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| Anne Sexton (1920-1974) | |
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| Robert Lowell (1917-1977) | |
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| J.D. Salinger (b. 1919) | |
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| The Catcher in the Rye | |
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| Horror and Humor (1930-1960) | |
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| Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) | |
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| Make Me Laugh, Make Me Cry | |
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| James Thurber (1894-1961) | |
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| Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) | |
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| Legends of Laughter | |
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| Contemporary Literature (1946-Present) | |
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| Jewish-American Literature | |
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| Gentleman's Agreement | |
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| Saul Bellow (b. 1915) | |
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| Erica Jong (b. 1942) | |
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| Norman Mailer (b. 1923) | |
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| Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) | |
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| Philip Roth (b. 1933) | |
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| Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) | |
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| Elie Wiesel (b. 1928) | |
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| Contemporary African-American Literature | |
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| I Have A Dream | |
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| Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) | |
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| Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917) | |
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| James Baldwin (1924-1987) | |
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| Maya Angelou (b. 1928) | |
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| Toni Morrison (b. 1931) | |
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| Alice Walker (b. 1944) | |
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| Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949) | |
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| Modern Canadian Literature | |
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| O Canada! | |
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| Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) | |
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| Between the Wars | |
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| Alfred Purdy (b. 1918) | |
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| Pierre Berton (b. 1920) | |
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| Mavis Gallant (b. 1922) | |
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| Margaret Laurence (1926-1987) | |
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| Mordecai Richler (b. 1931) | |
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| Alice Munro (b. 1931) | |
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| Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) | |
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| Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943) | |
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| Native-American, Latino-American, and Asian-American Literature | |
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| Modern Native-American Writers | |
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| Today's Latino-American Writers | |
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| Contemporary Asian-American Writers | |
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| New Frontiers | |
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| John Cheever (1912-1982) | |
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| John Updike (b. 1932) | |
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| Truman Capote (1924-1984) | |
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| Mary Gordon (b. 1948) | |
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| Stephen King (b. 1947) | |
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| Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938) | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| The Authors and Their Most Famous Works | |
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| Additional Reading | |
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| Timeline | |
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| Index | |