# A History of American Literature Since 1870

Author: Pattee, Fred Lewis, 1863-1950

Genre: Category: American Literature

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42593

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## Summary

We are beginning to realize that the Civil War marks a dividing line in American history as sharp and definitive as that burned across French history by the Revolution. That the South had been vastly affected by the war was manifest from the first. The widespread destruction of property, the collapse of the labor system, and the fall of the social régime founded on negro slavery, had been so dramatic and so revolutionary in their results that they had created everywhere a feeling that the ultimate effects of the war were confined to the conquered territory. Grady's phrase, "the new South," and later the phrase, "the end of an era," passing everywhere current, served to strengthen the impr...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-american-literature-since-1870-42593/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-american-literature-since-1870-42593/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-american-literature-since-1870-42593/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-american-literature-since-1870-42593/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-american-literature-since-1870-42593/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-american-literature-since-1870-42593/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-american-literature-since-1870-42593/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-american-literature-since-1870-42593/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-american-literature-since-1870-42593/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-american-literature-since-1870-42593/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-american-literature-since-1870-42593/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-american-literature-since-1870-42593/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-american-literature-since-1870-42593/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-american-literature-since-1870-42593/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-american-literature-since-1870-42593/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-american-literature-since-1870-42593/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-american-literature-since-1870-42593/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-american-literature-since-1870-42593/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter XV contains two Section "V"'s, and the following sections are](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-american-literature-since-1870-42593/chapters/19/index.md)