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The present volume Contemporary American Literature is a major critical study comprising of textual topics and writers keeping in view the prescribed syllabi of different Indian Universities.

The book provides full length critical insight on major American scholars, poets, novelists, humorists critics and essayists.

It also deals with the naturalism postmodern movement innovative poetry and new literature. This book will be helpful to the students research scholars and teachers of English to have a better knowledge and critical thought in the related area.

Contents: Preface. 1. Naturalism in American literature. 2. Allen Ginsberg and beat generation. 3. Postmodern fiction in the new millennium. 4. New literature and the Knickerbocker group. 5. Washington Irving. 6. James Fenimore cooper: 1789-1851. 7. William cullent Bryant. 8. The literary development of new England. 9. Ralph Waldo Emerson. 10. Henry David Thoreau. 11. Nathaniel Hawthorne. 12. Edgar Allan poe. 13. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 14. John Greenleaf Whittier. 15. James Russell Lowell. 16. Oliver Wendell Holmes. 17. The contemporary classic representative writers. 18. Writers of New York and Pennsylvania. 19. Novelists and humourists. 20. Poetry: South and North. 21. Scholars and essayists. 22. The modern poets. 23. The innovators: free verse. 24. The essay and the drama. Bibliography. Index.