Chapter One American Transcendentalism and Romanticism Introduction to the Background About the Author Washington Irving Selected Reading Rip Van Winkle About the Author Edgar Allan Poe Selected Reading The Raven About the Author Ralph Waldo Emerson Selected Reading Self-Reliance About the Author Nathaniel Hawthorne Selected Reading The Minister's Black Veil About the Author Herman Melville Selected Reading Moby Dick About the Author Emily Dickinson Selected Reading Selected Poems Chapter Two American Realism Introduction to the Background About the Author Mark Twain Selected Reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn About the Author Henry James Selected Reading Daisy Miller Daisy Miller Chapter Three American Naturalism Introduction to the Background About the Author Stephen Crane Selected Residing The Red Badge of Courage About the Author Robert -Frost Selected Reading Selected Poems About the Author Sherwood Anderson Selected Reading Winesburg, Ohio Chapter Four American Modernism Introduction to the Background About the Author Wallace Stevens Selected Reading Selected Poems About the Author T. S. Eliot Selected Reading The Waste Land, About the Author Francis Scott Fitzgerald Selected Reading The Great Gatsby About the Author William Faulkner Selected Reading That Evening Sun About the Aut-hor Ernest Hemingway Selected Reading A Clean, Well-Lighted-Place About the Author Eugene O' Neilt Selected Reading Long Day's Journey into Night About the Author Willa Cather Selected Reading Neighbour Rosicky Chapter Five American Literature Since 1945 Introduction to the Background About the Author Ralph Ellison Selected Reading Invisible Man About the Author Saul Bellow Selected Reading Herzog Key References