Index, p. 436-440.

Bibliography, p. 418-435.

1. Introduction. Approach to the Thirties. - The Periods. - Review and the Problems. - Preview.

2. American Fiction in the Mid-Twentieth Century (1930-1970): Realists and Naturalists Before and Into World War II. Gertrude Stein, Elliot Paul, Henry Miller, John P. Marquand, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe. — Regionalism and Rural Naturalism Before and After Mid-Century. Pearl Buck, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell, Robert Penn Warren, William Saroyan, Eudora Welty, Ernest Gaines. — Realists and Naturalists: The New Generation. Johnn O'Hara, Irwin Shaw, Herman Wouk, J.D. Salinger, James Jones, Norman Mailer, Truman Capote. — Regionalism and Naturalism in the City. James T. Farrell, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Sail Bellow, Bernard Malamud. — The Reaction to Realism: Psycological, Ideological and Romantic Fiction. Thornton Wilder, Nathanael, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, William Styron.

3. American Drama: Mid-Century: Modes and New European Influences. — The American Theatre after 1930. Sidney Kingsley, Maxwell Anderson, Robert Sherwood, Clifford Odets, S.N. Behrman, Lillian Hellman, Arthur Miller, Tenesse Williams, Edward Albee, Lorraine Hansberry.

4. American Poetry: Mid-Century: New Directions and Traditionals Values. — American Poets After 1930 (and Somewhat Before): Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Archibald Macleish, E.E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, Langston Hughes, Theodore Roethke, Robert Lowell, Some Younger Poets, Some Younger Younger Poets.

5. Modern Literary Criticism, Chiefly American After 1930.