Richard Gray is Professor of Literature at the University of Essex and former Distinguished Visiting Professor at a number of universities in the United States. He is the first specialist in American literature to be elected a Fellow of the British Academy and has published over a dozen books on the topic, including the award–winning  Writing the South  (Ideas of an American Region (1986) and The Life of William Faulkner: A Critical Biography (1944).  His History of  American Literature is widely considered to be one of the standard works on the subject.

Preface and Acknowledgments.

1 The First Americans: American Literature During the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods.

Imagining Eden.

Writing of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods.

2 Inventing Americas: The Making of American Literature 1800–1865.

Making a Nation.

The Making of American Myths.

The Making of American Selves.

The Making of Many Americas.

The Making of an American Fiction and Poetry.

3 Reconstructing the Past, Reimagining the Future: The Development of American Literature 1865–1900.

Rebuilding a Nation.

The Development of Literary Regionalisms.

The Development of Literary Realism and Naturalism.

The Development of Women′s Writing.

The Development of Many Americas.

4 Making It New: The Emergence of Modern American Literature 1900–1945.

Changing National Identities.

Between Victorianism and Modernism.

The Inventions of Modernism.

Traditionalism, Politics, and Prophecy.

Community and Identity.

Mass Culture and the Writer.

5 Negotiating the American Century: American Literature since 1945.

Towards a Transnational Nation.

Formalists and Confessionals.

Public and Private Histories.

Beats, Prophets, and Aesthetes.

The Art and Politics of Race.

Realism and Its Discontents.

Language and Genre.

Creating New Americas.

Index.

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