Late Nineteenth Century: 1865-1910

Modern Period: 1901-1945

Contemporary Period:  1945 to the Present

Late Nineteenth Century: 1865-1910

Developments in Women's Writing

• Julia A.J. Foote (1823-1900)
• Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)
• Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
• Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921)
• Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894)
• Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911)
• Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
• Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)
• Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930)
• A Sheaf of Poetry by Late-Nineteenth Century American Women
• A Sheaf within a Sheaf: Poems from the 1890s

Regional Voices, National Voices

• African-American Folktales
• Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910)
• George Washington Cable (1844-1925)
• Grace King (1852-1932)
• Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)
• Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932)
• Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
• Alexander Lawrence Posey (Creek) (1873-1908)
• John Milton Oskison (Cherokee) (1874-1947)
• Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
• William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
• Henry James (1843-1916)
• Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
• Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
• Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
• Frank Norris (1870-1902)
• Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
• Jack London (1876-1916)

Issues and Visions in Post-Civil War America

• Standing Bear (Ponca) (1829-1908)
• Ghost Dance Songs
• Charles Alexander Eastman (Sioux) (1858-1939)
• Sarah Winnemucca (Thocmetony) (c. 1844-1891)
• Marietta Holley (pseud. "Josiah Allen's Wife") (1836-1926)
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
• Anna Julia Cooper (1858?-1964)
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
• Jose Marti (1853-1895)
• Corridos
• Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936)
• Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)
• Henry Adams (1838-1918)

New Explorations of an "American" Self

• Abraham Cahan (1860-1951)
• Edith Maud Eaton (Sui-Sin Far) (1865-1914)
• Mary Austin (1868-1934)
• Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) (Sioux) (1876-1938)
• Mary Antin (1881-1949)

Modern Period: 1901-1945

Toward the Modern Age

• Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915)
• W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
• James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
• Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
• Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)
• Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
• Edgar Lee Masters(1869-1950)
• Willa Cather (1873-1947)
• Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)
• Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)
• Robert Frost (1874-1963)
• Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
• Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
• Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

Alienation and Literary Experimentation

• Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
• Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
• Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
• William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
• Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
• Djuna Barnes (1892-1982)
• Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881-1941)
• H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)
• A Sheaf of Political Poetry in the Modern Period
• E.E. Cummings (1894-1962)
• T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (1986-1940)
• Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
• Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
• Louise Bogan (1897-1970)
• Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
• Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
• William Faulkner (1897-1962)
• Hart Crane (1899-1932)

The New Negro Renaissance

• Alain Locke (1885-1954)
• Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
• Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
• Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
• Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902-1981)
• Arna Bontemps (1902-1973)
• Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989)
• Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
• Claude McKay (1889-1948)
• Anne Spencer (1882-1975)
• Nella Larsen (1891-1964)
• George Samuel Schuyler (1895-1977)
• Blues Lyrics

Issues and Visions in Modern America

• Randolph Bourne (1886-1918)
• Anzia Yezierska (1881?-1970)
• Michael Gold (1893-1967)
• John Dos Passos (1896-1970)
• Albert Maltz (1908-1985)
• Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)
• Mary McCarthy (1912-1989)
• Clifford Odets (1906-1963)
• Meridel LeSueur (1900-1996)
• Mourning Dove (Okanogan) (1888-1936)
• John Joseph Mathews (Osage) (1894-1979)
• Thomas S. Whitecloud Chippewa) (1914-1972)
• D'Arcy McNickle (1904-1977)
• Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)
• John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)
• Allen Tate (1899-1979)
• Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976)
• Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978)
• John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
• Richard Wright (1908-1960)
• Margaret Walker (b. 1915)
• Saunders Redding (1906-1988)
• Pietro Di Donato (1911-1992)
• Younghill Kang (1903-1972)
• Carved on the Walls: Poetry by Early Chinese Immigrants

Contemporary Period: 1945 to the Present

Part I -- Literature of the Cold War: Orthodoxy and Resistance

• Arthur Miller (b. 1915)
• Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
• Ann Petry (b. 1908)
• Carlos Bulosan (1913-1956)
• Eudora Welty (b. 1909)
• Lee Smith (b. 1944)
• Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
• Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
• John Updike (b. 1932)
• Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914-1994)
• James Baldwin (1924-1987)
• Paule Marshall (b. 1929)
• John Okada (1923-1971)
• Tillie Lerner Olsen (b. 1912)
• Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)
• Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
• Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
• Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
• Robert Traill Spence Lowell, Jr. (1917-1977)
• Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
• Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
• Robert Creely (b. 1926)
• Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
• Charles Olson (1910-1970)
• Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)
• Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
• Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
• Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
• James Wright (1927-1980)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)
• Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

Part II -- New Communities, New Identities, New Energies

• Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (1930-1965)
• Edward Albee (b. 1928)
• Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
• Malcolm X (1925-1965)
• Saul Bellow (b. 1915)
• Grace Paley (b. 1922)
• Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
• Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)
• Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928)
• Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921)
• Pedro Pietri (b. 1944)
• Rudolfo Anaya (b. 1937)
• Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934)
• Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934)
• Lucille Clifton (b. 1936)
• Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933)
• Etheridge Knight (1931-1991)
• Alice Walker (b. 1944)
• Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995)
• James Alan McPherson (b. 1943)
• Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)
• June Jordan (b. 1936)
• Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
• N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) (b. 1934)
• James Welch (Blackfeet-Gros Ventre) (b. 1940)
• Tomás Rivera (1935-1984)
• Nicholasa Mohr (b. 1938)
• Pat Mora (b. 1942)
• Victor Hernandez Cruz (b. 1949)
• Garrett Kaoru Hongo (b. 1951)

Part III -- Postmodernity and Difference: Promises and Threats

• David Henry Hwang (b. 1957)
• John Barth (b. 1930)
• Donald Barthelme (1931-1989)
• Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937?)
• Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
• Rolando Hinojosa-Smith (b. 1929)
• John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941)
• Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
• Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)
• Amy Tan (b. 1952)
• Gish Jen (b. 1955)
• Janice Mirikitani (b. 1942)
• Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982)
• John Ashbery (b. 1927)
• Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
• Michael Herr (b. 1940)
• Carolyn Forché (b. 1950)
• Gloria Anzaldúa (b. 1942)
• Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952)
• Tato Laviera (b. 1951)
• Helena Maria Viramontes (b. 1954)
• Gary Soto (b. 1952)
• Raymond Carver (1938-1988)
• Joy Harjo (Creek) (b. 1951)
• Roberta Hill Whiteman (Oneida) (b. 1947)
• Louise Erdrich (Chippewa) (b. 1954)
• Wendy Rose (Hopi) (b. 1948)
• Cathy Song (b. 1955)
• Rita Dove (b. 1952)
• Li-Young Lee (b. 1957)
• Lorna Dee Cervantes (b. 1954)
• Aurora Levins Morales (b. 1954)
• Bharati Mukherjee (b. 1940)
• Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna) (b. 1948)
• Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954)
• Simon Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo) (b. 1941)
• Toni Morrison (b. 1931)

Afterword: Classroom Issues in Teaching a New Canon

Index of Authors