Includes index.

Colonial period to 1700 -- New Spain -- New France -- Chesapeake -- new England -- Eighteenth Century -- Contested Visions, American Voices -- Early Nineteenth Century: 1800-1865 -- Spanish America -- Revisioning new England -- Issues and Conflicts in Antebellum America -- The Development of Narrative -- The Emergence of American Poetic Voices -- Late Nineteenth Century 1865-1910 -- Developments in women's writing -- The making of Americans -- Modern Period 1910-1945 -- Alienation and Literary Experimentation -- The New Negro Renaissance -- Issues and Vision of Modern America -- Contemporary period 1945-present -- Contemporary period: New Generations .

Those familiar with the anthology might see that as a contradiction in terms. After all, the Heath's main project has been to expand significantly the authors and works comprising what we call American literature. American literature might have been taught from a single book titled Twelve American Writers or the like. No more.