Learning Outcomes

After completing this chapter, you should be able to:

• Analyze the ways in which the Industrial Revolution, western expansion, and significant immigration changed the nature of American literature.
• Analyze the ways in which African-American literature develops in this period.
• Explore the ways in which the two decades prior to World War I defined American masculinity for much of the twentieth century.
• Critique the development of Modernist poetry during this period.