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Writing the Nation
Learning Outcomes
Introduction
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Key Terms
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
Ambrose Bierce (1842-circa 1914)
Henry James (1843-1916)
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
Kate Chopin (1850-1904)
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
Jack London (1876-1916)
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
Frank Norris (1870-1902)
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
Zane Grey (1872-1939)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Marianne Moore, (1887-1972)
T. S. Elliot (1888-1965)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
Eudora Alice Welty (1909-2001)
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
The Harlem Renaissance
Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
Southern Renaissance - First Wave (1920-1940)
Nella Larsen (1891-1964)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
Southern Literary Renaissance Second Wave (1945-1965)
Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983)
James Dickey (1923 - 1997)
Donald Barthelme (1931 - 1989)
Flannery O’Connor (1925 - 1964)
Postmodernism
Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963)
Ralph Ellison (1914 - 1994)
James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
Allen Ginsberg (1926 - 1997)
Adrienne Rich (1929 - 2012)
Toni Morrison (1931 - 2019)
Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963)
Don Delillo (1936 - )
Alice Walker (1944 - )
Leslie Marmon Silko (1948 - )
David Foster Wallace (1962 - 2008)
Glossary
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Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865-Present Copyright © by Amy Berke; Jordan Cofer; Robert R. Bleil; and Doug Davis is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.