HARVARDGUIDE
TO CONTEMPORARY
AMERICAN WRITING
Daniel Hoffman, Editor
"Harvard Guide to Contemporary American
Writing has no rival in scope!'
- Robert Penn Warren
Harvard University Press is proud to present a major addi–
tion to the study of American letters. This is the first compre–
hensive critical survey of the most significant writing in the
United States from the end of World War II to the end of the
1970s. In original essays, ten eminent critics describe and
assess the work of American novelists, playwrights, and
poets, and analyze the intellectual and critical environment
in which they worked.
The essays and their authors include:
Intellectual History
by Alan Trachtenberg
Literary Criticism
by
A.
Walton Litz
Realists, Naturalists, and Novelists of Manners
by Leo Braudy
Southern Fiction
by Lewis
P.
Simpson
Jewish Writers
by Mark Shechner
Experimental Fiction
by Josephine Hendin
Black Literature
by Nathan
A.
Scott, Jr.
Women's Literature
by Elizabeth Janeway
Drama
by Gerald Weales
Poetry
by Daniel Hoffman
At your local bookstore now. $18.50
The Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
