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Part 1 Early American Literature:Colonial Period to 1815

Chapter 1 The Literature of the New World 3

Chapter 2 The Literature of Colonial America:1620—1763 13

Chapter 3 Literature and the American Revolution:1764—1815 40

Part 2 American Romanticism:1815— 1865

Chapter 4 The Age of American Romanticism 67

Chapter 5 Early Romanticism 71

Chapter 6 Transcendentalism and Symbolic Representation 89

Chapter 7 Hawthorne,Melville and Poe 104

Chapter 8 Whitman and Dickinson 122

Chapter 9 A House Divided:Writing Against Slavery 134

Part 3 American Realism:1865— 1914

Chapter 10 The Age of Realism 143

Chapter 11 Regional and Local Color Writings 147

Chapter 12 Henry James and William Dean Howells 157

Chapter 13 Literary Naturalism 166

Chapter 14 Women Writing on the"Woman Question" 175

Part 4 American Modernism:1914— 1945

Chapter 15 Modernism in the American Grain 185

Chapter 16 The Evolution of Modernism 200

Chapter 17 American Modernism in Europe 215

Chapter 18 Modern Fiction Between the Wars 228

Chapter 19 Modern American Poetry 252

Chapter 20 African American Literature and Modernism 265

Part 5 American Literature Diversified:1945 to the New MillenniumChapter 21 Literature Diversified Under New Conditions 275

Chapter 22 American Theater:Three Major Playwrights 286

Chapter 23 Major Fiction Writers:1945 till the 1960s 298

Chapter 24 Poetic Tendencies Since 1945 320

Chapter 25 Fictional Inclinations Since the 1960s 331

Chapter 26 Contemporary Multi-ethnic Literature and Fiction 341

Chapter 27 Globalization of American Literature:Diasporic Writers 362

Appendix 1 Questions for Discussion ＆ Writing Assignment and Research Resources 391

Appendix 2 Chronology of Historical Events 441

Index 457

Selected Bibliography 465