The Columbia Literary History of the United StatesFor the first time in four decades, there exists an authoritative and up to date survey of the literature of the United States, from prehistoric cave narratives to the radical movements of the sixties and the experimentation of the eighties. This comprehensive volumeone of the century's most important books in American studiesextensively treats Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, Hemingway, and other long cherished writers, while also giving considerable