e © Paul P. Reuben Ph.D.
Professor of English, Emeritus Department of English California State University, Stanislaus
Updated: February 18, 2025 EMail: PReuben@csustan.edu
| Alphabetical List 462 American Author Pages: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T UV W Y Z |
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Walking: “It is the best of humanity, I think, that goes out to walk. In happy hours all affairs may be wisely postponed for this. . . . It is a fine art; there are degrees of proficiency, and we distinguish the professors from the apprentices. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good-humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence, and nothing too much. Good observers have the manners of trees and animals, and if they add words, it is only when words are better than silence. But a vain talker profanes the river and the forest, and is nothing like so good company as a dog.”
Table of Contents
Chapters
| Chapter 1: Early
American Lit to 1700 | Chapter 2:
Early
American Lit 1700-1800 | Chapter 3:
19th
Century Romanticism | Chapter 4:
19th
Century
Transcendentalism | Chapter 5:
Late
19th
Century Realism | Chapter 6:
Late
19th
Century Naturalism | Chapter 7:
Early
20th Century and Modernism | Chapter 8:
American
Drama | Chapter 9: The
Harlem Renaissance | Chapter 10:
Late 20th Century and Postmodernism |
Appendix A: Useful Resources for Research
Appendix
B: Minorities and Women
Studies: African
-American Studies Native-American
Studies Asian-American
Studies
Gay &
Lesbian Studies Hispanic
& Mexican-American Studies Jewish-American
Studies Women
Studies Appendix
C: American Fiction Appendix
D: Writing Assignments
Appendix
E: The Theme of Alienation and Initiation and the
Immigrant Experience Appendix
F: Elements of Poetry
Appendix G: Elements of Fiction
Appendix H: Elements of Drama
Appendix I: The MLA Style
Appendix J: Research Topics
Appendix K: American Literary History
& Theory
Appendix L: The Frontier in American
Literature Appendix
M: Film Criticism and
American Literature Appendix N: American Gothic in
Literature
Appendix O: Selected Studies in
American Poetry
Appendix P: American Literature and
California
Appendix Q: American Folklore Appendix R: American Humor, Satire,
and Wit
Appendix S: The American Dream
Appendix T: Manifest Destiny
Appendix U: Nature, Ecocriticism,
& Ecofeminism
Appendix V: The American City in
Literature and Culture |
Appendix W: The Changing
American Landscape | Appendix
X: Contemporary
Adoptions of Early American Texts,
Authors | Appendix Y: Sympathy in
American Literature |
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