This is a complete summary of American Literature for UGC NET India. Created in 2021, this file cover contents from 5 eras in 115 pages.

  • Class Year
  • 2021
  • Grade
  • JRF
  • Number of Pages
  • 115
  • Staff Rating
  • 4.75/5

This file cover the following topics:

  • EARLY AMERICAN WRITING
    • Colonial Period (1607-1775) & revolutionary period (1765-1790)
    • Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
    • Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
  • THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1800-1840)
    • Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
    • Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
    • Herman Melville (1819-1891)
    • James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
    • Washington Irving (1783-1859)
    • Lew Wallace (1827-1905)
    • Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
    • Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
    • Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
    • Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
    • Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
    • Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
    • THE FIRESIDE POETS
    • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
    • William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
    • James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
    • Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
  • REALISM
    • Henry James (1843-1916)
    • Mark Twain (1835-1910)
    • Jack London (1876-1916)
    • Frank Norris (1870-1902)
    • Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
    • Edna St Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
    • Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
    • Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
    • Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964)
    • Willa Cather (1873-1947)
    • William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
    • Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
    • Kate Chopin (1850-1904)
    • O Henry (1862-1910)
    • Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
  • MODERNSIM
    • PULITZER PRIZE
    • Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
    • LOST GENERATION:
    • F Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
    • John Dos Passos (1896-1970)
    • Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
    • Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)
    • William Faulkner (1897-1962)
    • Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)
    • Henry Miller (1891-1980)
    • Sherwood Anderson (1876-1974)
    • Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)
    • Margret Mitchell (1900-1949)
    • Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
    • Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953)
    • Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
    • Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)
    • Robert Frost (1874-1963)
    • HD (1886-1961)
    • Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
    • E E Cummings (1894-1962)
    • Hart Crane (1899-1932)
    • Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
  • POST-WAR AMERICAN LITERATURE
    • Harper Lee (1926-2016)
    • Truman Capote (1924-1984)
    • J D Salinger (1919-2010)
    • John O’Hara (1905-1970)
    • John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
    • John Updike (1932-2009)
    • Philip Roth (1933-2018)
    • Robert A Heinlein (1907-1988)
    • Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)
    • Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
    • Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
    • Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)
    • Cormac McCarthy (1933- )
    • Thomas Pynchon (1937- )
    • BEAT GENERATION
    • Black Mountain poets
    • William S Burroughs (1914-1997)
    • Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
    • Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
    • Confessional poetry / “Confessionalism”
    • Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
    • Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
    • Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
    • Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
    • Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)
    • Edward Albee (1928-2016)
    • Sam Shepard (1943-2017)
    • David Mamet (1947- )
    • August Wilson (1945-2005)
    • Tony Kushner (1956- )
    • John Ashbery (1927-2017)
    • Don DeLillo (1936- )
    • David Foster Wallace (1962-2008)
    • Norman Mailer (1923-2007)
    • Bob Dylan (1941-)

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