KnowraAmerican literatureLinked fromLinked fromThe 33 pages that link to American literature, each with the reason it gives.All 33Related 1Narrower topic 30Compared with 2Ernest HemingwayNarrower topic: Hemingway’s work became a central, though contested, part of the American literary canon.English literatureCompared with: It shares the English language with this tradition but developed distinct national histories and canons.Comparative literatureCompared with: Its national scope contrasts with comparative literature’s movement among linguistic and cultural traditions.James BaldwinNarrower topic: Baldwin’s essays and fiction made race and national identity inseparable in its canon.The American RenaissanceNarrower topic: The Renaissance is a celebrated period within this much longer and more diverse tradition.Nathaniel HawthorneNarrower topic: His novels and stories became enduring works within the national literary tradition.Moby-DickNarrower topic: The novel is now treated as a landmark of the American literary canon.Richard WrightNarrower topic: Wright’s fiction reshaped American literary depictions of race and urban life.Washington IrvingNarrower topic: Irving’s international success helped demonstrate that American writers could attract audiences abroad.American literary canonNarrower topic: The canon selects works from this broader, changing literary field.F. Scott FitzgeraldNarrower topic: Fitzgerald’s work became a central part of the twentieth-century American literary canon.Herman MelvilleNarrower topic: Melville’s novels became enduring landmarks within this national literary tradition.Adventures of Huckleberry FinnNarrower topic: The novel became a major reference point in debates over national literary identity and language.William Dean HowellsNarrower topic: Howells helped define a national literary culture after the Civil War.James Russell LowellNarrower topic: Lowell’s poetry and criticism helped define national literary identity in the nineteenth century.Local colorNarrower topic: Local color became especially prominent as American writers represented the country’s varied regions.Saul BellowNarrower topic: Bellow’s novels became a major strand of postwar American literature.American regionalismNarrower topic: Regionalism is one mode within the wider history of writing in the United States.Edith WhartonNarrower topic: Wharton remains a major voice in the study of American class, gender, and social change.Maxwell PerkinsNarrower topic: Perkins’s authors helped define prominent strands of twentieth-century American fiction.Don DeLilloNarrower topic: DeLillo’s fiction became a prominent account of late-twentieth-century American life.Kurt VonnegutNarrower topic: Vonnegut’s blend of regional detail, popular forms, and political satire occupies a distinctive place in its postwar fiction.Library of AmericaNarrower topic: The publisher’s selections map a broad national literary tradition.American studiesRelated: Literary study is one source of evidence and method within the broader interdisciplinary field.Jesmyn WardNarrower topic: Ward's fiction and memoir contribute to contemporary American literary traditions.Rufus Wilmot GriswoldNarrower topic: Griswold’s collections promoted a distinct national body of writing.Nella LarsenNarrower topic: Larsen’s novels broaden accounts of American life through Black women’s perspectives.Carson McCullersNarrower topic: McCullers’s novels belong to twentieth-century American fiction and its debates about identity and community.Charles Brockden BrownNarrower topic: Brown’s career belongs to the early formation of a distinct United States literary culture.Joseph HellerNarrower topic: Heller’s work belongs to postwar American fiction and its arguments about power and society.Louise ErdrichNarrower topic: Erdrich’s novels have become part of the wider study of contemporary American literature.Mary RowlandsonNarrower topic: Rowlandson’s book became a frequently studied early work in the region’s literary history.William Gilmore SimmsNarrower topic: Simms became a prolific nineteenth-century contributor to the national literary tradition.
KnowraAmerican literatureLinked fromLinked fromThe 33 pages that link to American literature, each with the reason it gives.All 33Related 1Narrower topic 30Compared with 2Ernest HemingwayNarrower topic: Hemingway’s work became a central, though contested, part of the American literary canon.English literatureCompared with: It shares the English language with this tradition but developed distinct national histories and canons.Comparative literatureCompared with: Its national scope contrasts with comparative literature’s movement among linguistic and cultural traditions.James BaldwinNarrower topic: Baldwin’s essays and fiction made race and national identity inseparable in its canon.The American RenaissanceNarrower topic: The Renaissance is a celebrated period within this much longer and more diverse tradition.Nathaniel HawthorneNarrower topic: His novels and stories became enduring works within the national literary tradition.Moby-DickNarrower topic: The novel is now treated as a landmark of the American literary canon.Richard WrightNarrower topic: Wright’s fiction reshaped American literary depictions of race and urban life.Washington IrvingNarrower topic: Irving’s international success helped demonstrate that American writers could attract audiences abroad.American literary canonNarrower topic: The canon selects works from this broader, changing literary field.F. Scott FitzgeraldNarrower topic: Fitzgerald’s work became a central part of the twentieth-century American literary canon.Herman MelvilleNarrower topic: Melville’s novels became enduring landmarks within this national literary tradition.Adventures of Huckleberry FinnNarrower topic: The novel became a major reference point in debates over national literary identity and language.William Dean HowellsNarrower topic: Howells helped define a national literary culture after the Civil War.James Russell LowellNarrower topic: Lowell’s poetry and criticism helped define national literary identity in the nineteenth century.Local colorNarrower topic: Local color became especially prominent as American writers represented the country’s varied regions.Saul BellowNarrower topic: Bellow’s novels became a major strand of postwar American literature.American regionalismNarrower topic: Regionalism is one mode within the wider history of writing in the United States.Edith WhartonNarrower topic: Wharton remains a major voice in the study of American class, gender, and social change.Maxwell PerkinsNarrower topic: Perkins’s authors helped define prominent strands of twentieth-century American fiction.Don DeLilloNarrower topic: DeLillo’s fiction became a prominent account of late-twentieth-century American life.Kurt VonnegutNarrower topic: Vonnegut’s blend of regional detail, popular forms, and political satire occupies a distinctive place in its postwar fiction.Library of AmericaNarrower topic: The publisher’s selections map a broad national literary tradition.American studiesRelated: Literary study is one source of evidence and method within the broader interdisciplinary field.Jesmyn WardNarrower topic: Ward's fiction and memoir contribute to contemporary American literary traditions.Rufus Wilmot GriswoldNarrower topic: Griswold’s collections promoted a distinct national body of writing.Nella LarsenNarrower topic: Larsen’s novels broaden accounts of American life through Black women’s perspectives.Carson McCullersNarrower topic: McCullers’s novels belong to twentieth-century American fiction and its debates about identity and community.Charles Brockden BrownNarrower topic: Brown’s career belongs to the early formation of a distinct United States literary culture.Joseph HellerNarrower topic: Heller’s work belongs to postwar American fiction and its arguments about power and society.Louise ErdrichNarrower topic: Erdrich’s novels have become part of the wider study of contemporary American literature.Mary RowlandsonNarrower topic: Rowlandson’s book became a frequently studied early work in the region’s literary history.William Gilmore SimmsNarrower topic: Simms became a prolific nineteenth-century contributor to the national literary tradition.