CONTENTS 1
Foreword and Acknowledgments Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Colonial America：A New Land/A New Literature：Bradford，Bradstreet，Edwards 5
Chapter 2 The Revolutionary Period：An Emergent National Literature 19
Chapter 3 Early National Period：Irving，Bryant，Cooper 38
Chapter 4 A National Literature and Romantic Individualism 68
Chapter 5 Nathaniel Hawthorne（1804—1864）：Consummate Romantic 75
Chapter 6 M id-Century Poets：Edgar Allan Poe （1809—1849）and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow（1807—1882） 92
Chapter 7 Nature and the Individual：The Transcendentalism of Emerson （1803—82）and Thoreau（1817—62） 122
Chapter 8 T he Anti-Slavery Impulse：Stowe，Douglass，Lowell，Whittier 143
Chapter 9 Herman Melville（1819—1891）：Master of Philosophical Allegory 149
Chapter 10 An Experiment in Form：Walt Whitman（1819—1892） 174
Chapter 11 Emily Dickinson（1830—1886）：The Recluse of Amherst 192
Chapter 12 From Civil War to New Century： Industrialism and the Rise of 204
Literary Realism：Introductions to Howells，O．Henry 204
Chapter 13 Mark Twain（1835—1910）：The Man，The Humorist，T he Social Critie，The Pessimist 220
Chapter 14 Psychological Realism：Henry James（1843—1916） 276
Chapter 15 Inner Conflict：Edith Wharton（1862—1937） 304
Chapter 16 At the Turn of the Century：Muckraking and Reform，Naturalism 324
Chapter 17 Two Naturalists：Jack London and（1876—1916）Stephen Crane（1871—1900） 332
Chapter 18 Theodore Dreiser（1871—1945）：Naturalism and M oral Crisis in the Twentieth Century 358
Selected Bibliography 376
Index of Literary Works Used 379