DVD 2: 3. 1856-1906; 4. 1907-1925

3. Great American Authors 1856 - 1906
After the Civil War, the modern American novel took shape, led by Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain and Henry James. At this time, the American literary voice came from everyone and from everywhere.
Chapters:
1868 - Louisa May Alcott: Little Women
1878 - Henry James:  Daisy Miller
1885 - Mark Twain:  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1906 The Whole Country Speaks
1906 Upton Sinclair: The Jungle

4. Great American Authors 1907 - 1925
As the United States moves beyond the Age of Innocence, her writers struggle with the problems of modernization and industrialization.
Chapters:
1913 - William Carlos Williams: The Tempers
1914 - Carl Sandburg: Chicago
1920 Edith Wharton Wins a Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Innocence
1922 The Innovators: e. e. cummings, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and Henry Miller
1923 Robert Frost:  Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby