BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO 1914 -- LITERARY COMEDIANS -- LOCAL COLOURISTS -- KATE CHOPIN -- WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER -- MARK TWAIN -- OTHER STANDOUT WRITERS OF THE PERIOD -- LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -- HORATIO ALGER -- CRITICS OF THE GILDED AGE -- HENRY ADAMS -- UPTON SINCLAIR -- POETS OF THE ERA -- SIDNEY LANIER -- EMILY DICKINSON -- CHAPTER 2 AMERICAN NATURALISM -- WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS -- THEODORE DREISER -- LIFE -- WORKS -- ASSESSMENT -- STEPHEN CRANE -- FRANK NORRIS -- HENRY JAMES -- EARLY LIFE AND WORKS -- FIRST YEARS IN PARIS AND LONDON -- THE "DRAMATIC YEARS" -- THE "MAJOR PHASE" -- ASSESSMENT -- JACK LONDON -- EDITH WHARTON -- CHAPTER 3 NOVELISTS AND SHORT-STORY WRITERS DURING THE WORLD WARS -- THE GROWTH OF MODERN FICTION -- GERTRUDE STEIN -- H.L. MENCKEN -- SHERWOOD ANDERSON -- PEARL BUCK -- DOROTHY PARKER -- CRITICS OF SOCIETY -- F. SCOTT FITZGERALD -- SINCLAIR LEWIS -- JAMES T. FARRELL -- TILLIE OLSEN -- JOHN DOS PASSOS -- THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE -- RICHARD WRIGHT -- ZORA NEALE HURSTON -- HEMINGWAY, FAULKNER, AND STEINBECK -- ERNEST HEMINGWAY -- WILLIAM FAULKNER -- JOHN STEINBECK -- LYRIC FICTIONISTS -- WILLA CATHER -- KATHERINE ANNE PORTER -- HENRY ROTH -- CHAPTER 4 DRAMA AND POETRY FROM 1914 TO 1945 -- EXPERIMENTS IN DRAMA -- EUGENE O'NEILL -- LILLIAN HELLMAN -- THORNTON WILDER -- OTHER SIGNIFICANT DRAMATISTS OF THE ERA -- THE NEW POETRY -- ROBERT FROST -- CARL SANDBURG -- LANGSTON HUGHES -- E.E. CUMMINGS -- MARIANNE MOORE -- EZRA POUND -- T.S. ELIOT -- WALLACE STEVENS -- WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS -- LITERARY CRITICISM -- EDMUND WILSON -- KENNETH BURKE -- JOHN CROWE RANSOM -- CLEANTH BROOKS -- EPILOGUE -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.