Chapter 1: 1
American Literature in the Colonial and Revolutionary PeriodsBenjiamin Franklin 4
Philip Freneau 16
Chapter 2: 22
19th Century American Literature 25
Washington Irving 25
James Fenimore Cooper 35
Nathaniel Hawthorne 44
Edgar Allan Poe 55
Henry David Thoreau 62
Herman Melville 73
Walt Whitman 82
Chapter 3: 87
Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Literature 90
Mark Twain 90
Henry James 99
Theodore Dreiser 112
Jack London 125
Chapter 4: 141
20th Century American Literature before World War Ⅱ 144
Robert Frost 144
Ezra Pound 148
F. Scott Fitzgerald 152
William Faulkner 165
Ernest Hemingway 178
John Steinbeck 192
Chapter 5: 199
20th Century African-American Literature 203
William Edward Burghardt DuBois 203
Langston Hughes 213
Ralph Ellison 218
James Baldwin 226
Toni Morrison 234
Alice Walker 243
Chapter 6: 252
20th Century American Drama 255
Eugene O'neill 255
Tennessee Williams 265
Arthur Miller 273
Chapter 7: 282
Post-War American Literature 285
Saul Bellow 285
J. D. Salinger 297
Jack Kerouac 308
Kurt Vonnegut,Jr 319
Joseph Heller 337
John Updike 352
Amy Luth Tan 364
Works Cited 380