Preface
Part One The Early American Literature
Chapter 1 The Immigration to the Americas and the English Settlement
1.1 The Immigration to the Americas
1.2 The English Settlement
Chapter 2 The Literature of the New World
2.1 The Native American Oral Literature
2.2 The European Exploration Writings
Chapter 3 The Literature of the Colonial America
3.1 The Literature in the Northern Colonies
3.2 The Writers in the Southern Colonies
3.3 The Writers in the Middle Colonies
Part Two The Literature of the Revolutionary America
Chapter 4 The Historical Context
Chapter 5 The Voices of Reason and Revolution
5.1 Benjamin Franklin
5.2 Thomas Paine
5.3 Thomas Jefferson
5.4 Alexander Hamilton
Chapter 6 The Creative Writing
6.1 Philip Freneau
6.2 Royall Tyler
6.3 William Hill Brown
6.4 Charles Brockden Brown
6.5 Hugh Henry Brackenridge
Part Three The Romantic Literature
Chapter 7 The American Romanticism
7.1 The Historical Context
7.2 The American Romanticism
Chapter 8 The Early Romanticism
8.1 Washington Irving
8.2 James Fenimore Cooper
8.3 William Cullen Bryant
Chapter 9 New England Transcendentalism
9.1 The Transcendental Club
9.2 Transcendentalism as a Philosophy
9.3 The Literary Achievements
Chapter 10 The Antislavery Writing
10.1 The Historical Background
10.2 Harriet Beecher Stowe
10.3 Frederick Douglass
10.4 Harriet Ann Jacobs
Part Four The Realistic Literature
Chapter 11 The American Realism
11.1 The Historical Context
11.2 The American Realism
Chapter 12 The Local-Color Writings
12.1 Mark Twain
12.2 Sarah Orne Jewett
12.3 George Washington Cable
12.4 Brett Harte
Chapter 13 The Other Realist Writings
13.1 Henry James, Jr.
13.2 William Dean Howells
13.3 O. Henry
Part Five The Naturalistic Literature
Chapter 14 The Age of Naturalism
14.1 The Historical Context
14.2 Naturalism
Chapter 15 The American Naturalism
15.1 Hamlin Garland
15.2 Stephen Crane
15.3 Frank Norris
15.4 Theodore Dreiser
15.5 Jack London
Chapter 16 The New Women's Literature
16.1 Kate Chopin
16.2 Charlotte Perkins Gilman
16.3 Edith Wharton
Part Six The Modernist Literature
Chapter 17 The Age of Modernism
17. I The Historical Context
17.2 The Modernist Paradigms
17.3 Modernism
17.4 The American Modernism
Chapter 18 The Literature in the Early Phase of Modernism
18.1 Edwin Arlington Robinson
18.2 Robert Frost
18.3 Carl Sandburg
18.4 Willa Cather
18.5 Sherwood Anderson
18.6 Gertrude Stein
18.7 Sinclair Lewis
Chapter 19 The Modernist Poetry
19.1 The Imagist poetry
19.2 The Other Poets
Chapter 20 The Fiction between the Wars
20.1 The Lost Generation
20.2 The Southern Literature
20.3 The 1930s' Fiction
Chapter 21 The Drama between the Wars
Chapter 22 The Afro-American Literature between the Wars
22.1 Jean Toomer
22.2 Langston Hughes
22.3 Zora Neale Hurston
22.4 Richard Wright
Part Seven The Postwar Literature
Chapter 23 The Diversity of the Postwar Era
23.1 The Historical Context
23.2 Existentialism
23.3 Postmodernism
23.4 Deconstruction
Chapter 24 The Postwar Drama
24.1 Tennessee Williams
24.2 Arthur Miller
24.3 Edward Alhee
Chapter 25 The Postwar Fiction
25.1 The War Novels
25.2 The Southern Fiction
25.3 The Jewish Novels
25.4 The Beat Novel and Alienation
25.5 The Realist-Modernist Inclinations
25.6 The Postmodernist Inclinations
Chapter 26 The Postwar Poetry
26.1 The Beat Generation
26.2 The Confessional School
26.3 The New York School
26.4 The Black Mountain Poetry
26.5 The Meditative Poetry
Chapter 27 The Postwar Multi-ethnic Literature
27.1 The Afro-American Literature
27.2 The Asian American Literature
Key to Exercises
Appendix I List of Winners of Pulitzer Prizes in Literature
Appendix II List of Winners of National Book Awards
Appendix III List of Winners of National Book Critics Circle Awards
Appendix IV List of Winners of Tony Award for Best Play
Appendix V List of Poets Laureate of the USA
Appendix VI List of Books Referred to as Great American Novels
References