- New England, Indian summer, 1865-1915, by Van Wyck Brooks
- A second flowering, works and days of the lost generation, Malcolm Cowley
- New England: Indian summer
- Writers of the Black Chicago renaissance, edited by Steven C. Tracy
- Chicago renaissance;, the literary life in the Midwest, 1900-1930
- F.B. eyes, how J. Edgar Hoover's ghostreaders framed African American literature, William J. Maxwell
- Fifteen modern American authors;, a survey of research and criticism., Edited by Jackson R. Bryer
- Afro-American writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940, edited by Trudier Harris
- Sixteen modern American authors, volume 2, a survey of research and criticism since 1972, edited by Jackson R. Bryer
- The shores of light, a literary chronicle of the twenties and thirties, by Edmund Wilson
- The devil in the fire;, retrospective essays on American literature and culture, 1951-1971, [by] John W. Aldridge
- Girl in a library, on women writers & the writing life, Kelly Cherry
- Tillers of a myth;, southern agrarians as social and literary critics
- Political disappointment, a cultural history from Reconstruction to the AIDS crisis, Sara Marcus
- After the genteel tradition;, American writers, 1910-1930., With a pref. by Harry T. Moore
- Contemporary American literature, 1945-1972 : an introduction, [by] Ihab Hassan
- American literature; essays and opinions., Translated by Edwin Fussell
- Excursions, selected literary essays, Robert Boyers
- The fifties: fiction, poetry, drama., Edited by Warren French
- Writing through Jane Crow, race and gender politics in African American literature, Ayesha K. Hardison
- American literature, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Scott Donaldson and Ann Massa
- Liberating voices, oral tradition in African American literature, Gayl Jones
- A history of American literature since 1870
- Facing the abyss, American literature and culture in the 1940s, George Hutchinson
- Chicago and the American literary imagination, 1880-1920, Carl S. Smith
- The strenuous age in American literature
- Some of us;, an essay in epitaphs,, by James Branch Cabell
- Recent American literature
- Comic relief, humor in contemporary American literature, edited by Sarah Blacher Cohen
- The literary revolution,, by Stanton A. Coblentz
- Paradise lost, a life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, David S. Brown
- Modern American literature
- The confusion of realms
- Documentary and imaginative literature, 1880-1920, [by] J. A. V. Chapple
- The literary decade
- A casebook on the beat
- The best minds of my generation, a literary history of the Beats, Allen Ginsberg ; with a foreword by Anne Waldman ; edited by Bill Morgan
- The Harlem renaissance remembered;, essays,, edited, with a memoir, by Arna Bontemps
- The twenties; American writing in the postwar decade
- Modern American literature
- The lively image, 4 myths in literature, Richard E. Hughes
- Saints, sinners, saviors, strong Black women in African American literature, Trudier Harris
- Contemporary American-Jewish literature;, critical essays
- American and British literature since 1890., By Carl Van Doren and Mark Van Doren
- Critical angles, European views of contemporary American literature, edited by Marc Ch'enetier
- Guide to American literature from Emily Dickinson to the present, by James T. Callow and Robert J. Reilly
- The confident years: 1885-1915
- The Routledge introduction to American modernism, Linda Wagner-Martin
- The thirties: fiction, poetry, drama,, edited by Warren French
- A many-windowed house;, collected essays on American writers and American writing., Edited, with an introd. by Henry Dan Piper