Periods of American literature:-
The division of American literature into convenient historical segments, or "Period's," lacks the degree of consensus among literature scholars that wecfind with reference to English literature; see Period's of English literature. The many syllabi of college surveys reprinted in reconstructing American literature, and the essays in Redefining Americans literature History, ed. A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward (1990), demonstrate how variable are the temporal divisions and their names, especially since the efforts to do justice to literature written by women and by ethnic minorities. Some recent historians, anthologist and teachers of American literature simply divided their survey into date sections, without affixing period names.
A prominent tendency, however, is to recognize the importance of major wars in marking significant changes in literature. This tendency, as the scholar Cushing strout has remarked, "suggests that there is an order in American politics history more visible and compelling than that indicated by specifically literature or intellectual categories."
The following divisions of American literary history recognize the importance assigned by many literary historians to the revolutionary war (1775-81), the civil war (1861-65), World War I (1914-18), and World War II (1939-45). Under these broad divisions are listed some of the more widely used terms to distinguish periods and subperiods of American literature. These terms, it will be noted, are diverse in kind; they may signify a span of time, or a type of poli organisation, or a prominent intellectual or imaginative mode, or a predominant literary form.
The division of American literature into convenient historical segments, or "Period's," lacks the degree of consensus among literature scholars that wecfind with reference to English literature; see Period's of English literature. The many syllabi of college surveys reprinted in reconstructing American literature, and the essays in Redefining Americans literature History, ed. A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward (1990), demonstrate how variable are the temporal divisions and their names, especially since the efforts to do justice to literature written by women and by ethnic minorities. Some recent historians, anthologist and teachers of American literature simply divided their survey into date sections, without affixing period names.
A prominent tendency, however, is to recognize the importance of major wars in marking significant changes in literature. This tendency, as the scholar Cushing strout has remarked, "suggests that there is an order in American politics history more visible and compelling than that indicated by specifically literature or intellectual categories."
The following divisions of American literary history recognize the importance assigned by many literary historians to the revolutionary war (1775-81), the civil war (1861-65), World War I (1914-18), and World War II (1939-45). Under these broad divisions are listed some of the more widely used terms to distinguish periods and subperiods of American literature. These terms, it will be noted, are diverse in kind; they may signify a span of time, or a type of poli organisation, or a prominent intellectual or imaginative mode, or a predominant literary form.
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