Chapter One American Transcendentalism and Romanticism 1
Introduction to the Background 1
About the Author 3
Washington Irving 3
Selected Reading 5
Rip Van Winkle 5
About the Author 19
Edgar Allan Poe 19
The Raven 21
Selected Reading 21
About the Author 25
Ralph Waldo Emerson 25
Selected Reading 27
Self-Reliance 27
About the Author 48
Nathaniel Hawthorne 48
Selected Reading 50
The Minister’s Black Veil 50
About the Author 61
Herman Melville 61
Moby Dick 63
Selected Reading 63
About the Author 84
Emily Dickinson 84
Selected Reading 86
Selected Poems 86
Chapter Two American Realism 93
Introduction to the Background 93
About the Author 95
Mark Twain 95
Selected Reading 96
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 96
Henry James 111
About the Author 111
Selected Reading 113
Daisy Miller 113
Chapter Three American Naturalism 128
Introduction to the Background 128
About the Author 130
Stephen Crane 130
Selected Reading 131
The Red Badge of Courage 131
About the Author 161
Robert Frost 161
Selected Poems 163
Selected Reading 163
About the Author 168
Sherwood Anderson 168
Selected Reading 169
Winesburg, Ohio 169
Chapter Four American Modernism 193
Introduction to the Background 193
About the Author 197
Wallace Stevens 197
Selected Reading 199
Selected Poems 199
T.S.Eliot 205
About the Author 205
Selected Reading 206
The Waste Land 206
About the Author 214
Francis Scott Fitzgerald 214
Selected Reading 215
The Great Gatsby 215
About the Author 251
William Faulkner 251
Selected Reading 253
That Evening Sun 253
Ernest Hemingway 268
About the Author 268
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place 270
Selected Reading 270
About the Author 275
Eugene O Neill 275
Selected Reading 277
Long Day’s Journey into Night 277
About the Author 299
Willa Cather 299
Selected Reading 300
Neighbour Rosicky 300
Introduction to the Background 326
Chapter Five American Literature Since 1945 326
About the Author 330
Ralph Ellison 330
Selected Reading 331
Invisible Man 331
About the Author 344
Saul Bellow 344
Selected Reading 346
Herzog 346
Key 368
Bibliography 379