Part Ⅰ The Early American Literature (1620-1770)
Chapter Ⅰ The Seventeenth Century Literature
Puritanism in American Literature
Chapter 2 The Eighteenth Century Literature
Enlightenment in American Literature
Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography
Philip Freneau
To the Memory of the Brave Americans
The Wild Honey Suckle
Part Ⅱ The Age of Romanticism (1770-1875)
Chapter 3 American Literature of Pre-Romanticism
The Rise of Romanticism
Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle
William Cullen Bryant
To a Waterfowl
Chapter 4 American Literature of Post-Romanticism
New England Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
Song of Myself
I Hear America Singing
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm of Life
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Edgar Allan Poe
To Helen
The Raven
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Emily Dickinson
Poems (67, 303, 449, 1129)
Part Ⅲ The Age of Realism and Naturalism(1875-1914)
Chapter 5 American Literature of the Middle and Late 19th
Century
Realism in America
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Chapter 6 American Literature at the Turn of the Century
Naturalism in America
Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Richard Cory
Miniver Cheevy
Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie
Part Ⅳ The Twentieth Century American Literature(1914-2000)
Chapter 7 American Literature Between the Two World Wars
American Modernism
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
Ezra Pound
A Pact
In a Station of the Metro
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Robert Lee Frost
Mending Wall
The Road Not Taken
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
William Faulkner
Dry September
Chapter 8 American Literature Since 1945 American Post-Modernism
Joseph Heller
Catch-22
Allen Ginsberg
Howl
Robert Lowell
Katherine's Dream
The Drinker
Alice Walker
Everyday Use
Key to Exercises
Literary Terms