TY - BOOK AU - Dutta Nandana TI - American literature T2 - Literary contexts; ed.by Pramod K Nayar SN - 9788125062349 U1 - 810 DUT/A PY - 2016/// CY - Hyderabad PB - Orient BlackSwan KW - American Literature N1 - Political Map of the United States of America List of American Presidents Series Editor’s Preface Author’s Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Seventeenth Century 2. The Eighteenth Century 3. The Nineteenth Century: 1800 to 1865 4. The Nineteenth Century: Post-Civil War 5. The Twentieth Century: 1900 to 1945 6. The Twentieth Century: The Post-World War Era 7. The Twenty-first Century Index N2 - This book provides a backdrop to the study of American literature. Surveying over four hundred years of American history, it analyses the milieu that determined and defined literary representation and expression, and was responsible for the creation of writers and, indeed, readers. It seeks to understand the historical, social and natural environment that prevailed in different periods of American history, and its impact on literature ER -