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
Chapter Three American Naturalism
Chapter Four American Modernism
Chapter Five American Literature Since 1945
Key
References