Chapter One The Literature during the Colonial American Revolution 1
Benjamin Franklin 19
Chapter Two American Romanticism 19
Edgar Allan Poe 74
Henry David Thoreau 74
Walt Whitman 74
Herman Melville 74
Chapter Three The Age of Realism and Naturalism 74
Mark Twain 120
Henry James 120
Theodore Dreiser 120
Chapter Four Twentieth-Century American Literature before the War 120
Robert Frost 204
Ezra Pound 204
Thomas Stearns Eliot 204
Francis Scott Fitzgerald 204
William Faulkner 204
Ernest Hemingway 204
John Steinbeck 204
Chapter Five African-American Literature 204
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois 270
Langston Hughes 270
Ralph Ellison 270
James Baldwin 270
Toni Morrison 270
Chapter Six The Triumph of American Drama 270
Eugene O'Neil 335
Tennessee Williams 335
Arthur Miller 335
Chapter Seven Postwar American Literature 335