前言
Part 1 Early American Literature: Colonial Period to 1815
Chapter 1 The Literature of the New World
Chapter 2 The Literature of Colonial America: 1620—1763
Chapter 3 Literature and the American Revolution: 1764—1815
Part 2 American Romanticism: 1815—1865
Chapter 4 The Age of American Romanticism
Chapter 5 Early Romanticism
Chapter 6 Transcendentalism and Symbolic Representation
Chapter 7 Interrogating Innocence
Chapter 8 Whitman and Dickinson
Chapter 9 A House Divided: Writing against Slavery
Part 3 American Realism: 1865—1914
Chapter 10 The Age of Realism
Chapter 11 Regional and Local Color Writing
Chapter 12 Henry James and William Dean Howells
Chapter 13 Literary Naturalism
Chapter 14 Women Writing on the Woman Question
Part 4 American Modernism: 1914—1945
Chapter 15 Modernism in the American Grain
Chapter 16 The Evolution of Modernism
Chapter 17 American Modernism in Europe
Chapter 18 Modern Fiction between the Wars
Chapter 19 Modern American Poetry
Chapter 20 African American Literature and Modernism
Part 5 American Literature Diversified: From 1945 to the 21st Century
Chapter 21 Literature Diversified under New Conditions
Chapter 22 American Theatre: Three Major Playwrights
Chapter 23 Major Fiction Writers: 1945 till 1960s
Chapter 24 Poetic Tendencies since 1945
Chapter 25 Fictional Inclinations since the 1960s
Chapter 26 Contemporary Multiethnic Literature
Chapter 27 Globalization of American Literature: Diasporic Writers
Appendix 1 Questions for Discussion & Writing Assignment and Research Resources
Appendix 2 Chronology of Historical Events
Index
Selected Bibliography
