Part One The Literature of Colonial America
Historical Background
· William Bradford (1590-1657)
· John Winthrop (1588-1649)
· Anne Bradstreet (i6i2-1672)
· Edward Taylor (2645-1729)
The Witchcraft Trials in the 1690s
Part Two The Literature of Reason and Revolution
Historical Background
· Benjamin Franklin (i706-1790)
· Thomas Paine (2737-i809)
· Thomas Jefferson (2743-1826)
· Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
Part Three American Romanticism
Historical Background
Early Romanticism
· Washington Irving (1783-1895)
· James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
· William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
Summit of Romanticism--Transcendentalism
· Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882i
· Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
· Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
· Nathaniel Hawthorne (2804-1864)
· Herman Melville (1819-1891)
· Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
· Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Part Four American Realism
Debates over Slavery
· Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Historical Background after the Civil War
· Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
· Mark Twain (1835-1910)
· Henry James (1843-1916)
Naturalism
· Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
· Jack London (1876-1916)
· O. Henry (1862-1910)
Part Five American Modernism
Philosophical and Historical Background
· Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
· Robert Frost (1874-1963)
· F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
· Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
· William Faulkner (1897-1962)
· T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
· John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
· Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
Part Six American Literature since 1945
Philosophical and Historical Background
· Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
· Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
· Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
· Toni Morrison (1931-)
· Alice Walker (1944-)
· Joseph Heller (1923-1999)
· Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
· Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
· J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)
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