American literature

American literature, literature in English produced in what is now the United States of America.

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Colonial Literature
• A New Nation and a New Literature
• The Literature of a Split and a Reunited Nation
• The Turn of the Century
• The Lost Generation and After
• Bibliography

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