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Widely acknowledged as a contemporary classic that has introduced thousands of readers to American literature, this book charts the fascinating story of American literature from the Puritan legacy to the advent of postmodernism. From realism and romanticism to modernism and postmodernism, it examines and reflects on the work of a rich panoply of writers, including Poe, Melville, Fitzgerald, Pound, Wallace Stevens, Gwendolyn Brooks and Thomas Pynchon

A map of American literature that puts every writer in historical place from a contemporary perspective