Preface Chapter I The Colonial Period and 17th Century Literature of Puritanism The Historical Background The Development of Literature
Chapter II The Period of Enlightenment The Historical Background The Development of Literature Benjamin Franklin from Autobiography Philip Freneau To the Memory of the Brave Americans The Wild Honey Suckle
Chapter III New England Transcendentalism and the Romantic Age A. Period of Pre-Romanticism The Historical Background The Development of Literature Washington Irving from Rip Van Winkle. William Cullen Bryant Thanatopsis To a Waterfowl B. Period of Post-Romanticism The Historical Background The Development of Literature Edgar Allan Poe To Helen The Raven Ralph Waldo Emerson from Nature The Rhodora: on being asked, whence is the flower? Nathaniel Hawthorne from The Scarlte Letter Walt Whitman from Song of Myself. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls Harriet Beecher Stowe from Uncle Tom's Cabin Emily Dickinson 303 449 632 1129
Chapter IV The Age of Realism The Historical Background The Development of Literature Mark Twain from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Henry James from The Art of Fiction
Chapter V American Naturalism The Historical Background The Development of Literature Edwin Arlington Robinson Richard Cory Miniver Cheevy Stephen Crane from The Red Badge of Courage Theodore Dreiser from Sister Carrie Robert Lee Frost Mending Wall The Road Not Taken Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Chapter VI American Modernism The Historical Background The Development of Literature Ernest Hemingway from A Farewell to Arms Francis Scott Fitzgerald from The Great Gatsby John Steinbeck from The Grapes of Wrath T. S. Eliot from The Waste Land William Faulkner Dry September Eugene O'Neill from Long Day's Journey Into Night
Chapter VII American Literature since 1945 The Historical Background The Development of Literature Saul Bellow from Seize the Day Joseph Heller from Catch-22 Flannery O'Connor A Good Man Is Hard to Find Allen Ginsberg from Howl Alice Walker Everyday Use Main Reference Books