Chapter One Early Settlements and Puritanism 1
Reading-A Description of New England 3
Further Reading-A Modell of Christian Charity 11
Chapter Two Enlightenment 29
Reading-Poor Richard's Almanac 31
Further Reading-Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God 45
Chapter Three Romanticism 65
Reading 1-I Hear America Singing 67
Reading 2-"Nature" is what we see 68
Further Reading 1-Nature 69
Further Reading 2-Moby Dick 72
Further Reading 3-The Scarlet Letter 76
Chapter Four Realism,Regionalism and Naturalism 97
Reading-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 99
Further Reading 1-The Awakening 112
Further Reading 2-The Red Badge of Courage 130
Chapter Five Modernism 167
Reading 1-Mending Wall 170
Reading 2-In a Station of the Metro 172
Further Reading 1-The Red Wheelbarrow 173
Further Reading 2-Sea Rose 174
Further Reading 3-Tender is the Night 175
Chapter Six Postmodernism 205
Reading-Nobel Acceptance Speech 207
Further Reading-Nobel Acceptance Speech 217
References 225