CONTENTS // PREFACE IX // Part I • The Literature of British America // 1. THE PURITAN LEGACY 3 // 2. AWAKENING AND ENLIGHTENMENT 33 // Part II • From Colonial Outpost to Cultural Province // 3. REVOLUTION AND (IN)DEPENDENCE 6l // 4. AMERICAN NAISSANCE 104 // 5. YEA-SAYING AND NAY-SAYING 139 // Part III • Native and Cosmopolitan Crosscurrents: From Local Color to Realism and Naturalism // 6. SECESSION AND LOYALTY 181 // 7. MUCKRAKERS AND EARLY MODERNS 219 // Part IV • Modernism in the American Grain // 8. OUTLAND DARTS AND HOMEMADE WORLDS 239 // 9. THE SECOND FLOWERING 269 // 10. RADICAL REASSESSMENTS 316 // 11. STRANGE REALITIES, ADEQUATE FICTIONS 369 // INDEX 431