Part Ⅰ Periods of American Literature
Five Periods of American Literature
Part Ⅱ The Literature of ColonialAmerica
Historical Introduction
Puritan Thoughts
Influence on American Literature
Colonial Literature
Part Ⅲ The Literature of Reason and Revolution
Historical Introduction
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
Thomas Jefferson ( 1743-1826)
Philip Frenean (1752-1832)
Part Ⅳ The Literature of Romanticism
Historical Introduction
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
New England Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (I 804-1864)
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Part Ⅴ The Literature of Realism
Historical Introduction
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
O.Henry (1862-1910)
Henry James (1843-1916)
Jack London (1876-1916)
Naturalism in America
Theodore Dreiser (1871 - 1945)
Part Ⅵ The Twentieth Century American Literature
American Modernism
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Thomas Steams Eliot (1888-1965)
F Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
John Steinbeck(1902 - 1968)
William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962)
Some Literary Terms in American Literature
References