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.

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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.