{"product_id":"a-history-of-american-literature-9781405192323","title":"A History of American Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE 1950 TO THE PRESENT\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eFeaturing works from notable authors as varied as Salinger and the Beats to Vonnegut, Capote, Morrison, Rich, Walker, Eggers, and DeLillo, \u003ci\u003eA History of American Literature: 1950 to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e offers a comprehensive analysis of the wide range of literary works produced in the United States over the last six decades and a fascinating survey of the dramatic changes during America's transition from the innocence of the fifties to the harsh realities of the first decade of the new millennium. Author Linda Wagner-Martin - a highly acclaimed authority on all facets of modern American literature - covers major works of drama, poetry, fiction, non- fiction, memoirs, and popular genres such as science fiction and detective novels. Viewing works produced during this fertile literary period from a wide-ranging perspective, Wagner-Martin considers literature in relation to such issues as the politics of civil rights, feminism, s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This commendable handbook should stimulate renewed debate on the canon.  Summing Up:  Recommended.  Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.”  (\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 September 2013)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrations ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Locating Contemporary Literature \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerican Poetry during the 1950s 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA. Poems of the Mind and the Body 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eB. The Farthest Edge: The Beats and the Confessional School 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerican Theater during the 1950s 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerican Fiction during the 1950s 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA. Fiction and the War 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eB. Class and Sexuality in the Novel 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eC. The Novel, Jewish and Southern 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The Sixties and the Necessities of Change \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e47\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheater of the 1960s 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrican American Writing in the 1960s 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1960s Fiction, Mainstream Markers 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFeminism 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Conventions and Eruptions \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e79\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoetry of the Anti-War and Feminist Years 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFeminist Fictions 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostmodern Fictions 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScience Fiction and Alternative Worlds 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Journalism 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheater During the 1970s 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 New Ages and Old \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e139\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMemoir: Another New Direction 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrime and Detective Fiction, American Style 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheater during the 1980s 168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 The 1980s, Ethnicity and Change \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e175\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAsian American Writing 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNative American Writing 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMexican American Writing (i.e., Latino\/Latina) 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrican American Writing 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoetry in the 1980s 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFiction in the 1980s 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 The 1990s and the Sexual \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e225\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSexual Preferences and Social\/Legal Issues 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheater of the 1990s 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Poem at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStory at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century 250\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSouthern Literature at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century 260\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 The Twenty-First Century \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e277\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Story of 9\/11 and Its Aftermath 286\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheater 2000–2010 307\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoetry 2000–2010 311\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMemoir and Life-Writing 2000–2010 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFiction 2000–2010 326\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 353\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 365\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529339019607,"sku":"9781405192323","price":87.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405192323.jpg?v=1731875233","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-history-of-american-literature-9781405192323","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}