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