9 The Essay

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. 1 Pre-Columbian Literatures 1
5. 2 The Colonial Period 31
6. 3 Romanticism 83
7. 4 Nineteenth-Century Prose Fiction 113
8. 5 Modernism 139
9. 6 Twentieth-Century Poetry 171
10. 7 Twentieth-Century Theater 213
11. 8 Twentieth-Century Fiction 243
12. 9 The Essay 305
13. 10 Literary Theory and Criticism 341
14. 11 Literary Reviews: A Bibliographical Essay 365
15. 12 Mexican and Mexican American Literary Relations 385
16. Index 439