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9. Multiculturalism
10. Native American (3)
11. Naturalism
12. Romantic Period
13. State Literature (2)
14. The Presidents (3)
15. Transcendentalism

A Student's History of American Literature
Read "A Student's History of American Literature."

American Studies
In American Studies, Louis Menand combines nervous breakdown, racism, and antisemitism. He brings together these seemingly opposing forces to explore the importance of time, morality, and that little thing called writing. "We look backward for clues," and he says it's because "we have no place left to look." Are we disillusioned or just lost in the maze of literary history and culture?

American Literature Anthologies
American literature has a rich and varied history. These books present literature from the Native American trickster and creation tales through Anne Bradstreet, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Bret Hart, Mark Twain, Henry James, Kate Chopin, Jack London, and more.

American Writers in Paris
Paris has been an extraordinary destination for American writers, including: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, E. E. Cummings, Cole Porter, Henry Miller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, and John Dos Passos.

Studies in Classic American Literature
Read "Studies in Classic American Literature," by D.H. Lawrence.

The Knickerbocker Group
Bliss Perry writes about the Knickerbocker Group.

The First Colonial Literature
Discover Early Colonial Literature.

The Pioneers
Bliss Perry writes about the pioneers in The American Spirit in Literature.

West of the Border
"West of the Border" is a discussion of the borderland upon which multicultural writers position themselves. Noreen Groover Lape explores the contradictions in American society, brought about by cultural contact points.

from D.H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature
D.H. Lawrence writes about Classic American Literature.

The Transcendentalists
Here's more info on transcendentalists in The American Spirit in Literature.

Emerson: Author of Books - Transcendentalist
Bliss Perry writes about Emerson in The American Spirit in Literature.