PART 1 THE EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE (1620——1770) 1
Chapter I The Seventeenth Century Literature 1
Puritanism in American Literature 1
Chapter ⅡThe Eighteenth Century Literature 5
Enlightenment in American Literature 5
Benjamin Franklin 8
Philip Freneau 25
PART Ⅱ THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM(1770——1875) 32
Chapter Ⅲ American Literature of Pre-Romanticism 32
The Rise of Romanticism 32
Washington Irving 36
William Cullen Bryant 55
Chapter Ⅳ American Literature of Post-Romanticism 61
New England Transcendentalism 61
Ralph Waldo Emerson 65
Nature 67
Walt Whitman 71
Nathaniel Hawthorne 84
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 100
Edgar Allan Poe 106
Harriet Beecher Stowe 117
Emily Dickinson 137
PART III THE AGE OF REALISM AND NATURALISM (1875——1914) 144
Chapter V American Literature of the Mid and Late Nineteenth Century 144
Realism in America 144
Mark Twain 149
Chapter VI American Literature at the Turn of the Century 166
Naturalism in America 166
Stephen Crane 173
Edwin Arlington Robinson 190
Theodore Dreiser 195
PART IV THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE (1914——2000) 213
Chapter VII American Literature between the Two World Wars 213
American Modernism 213
Ernest Hemingway 223
Ezra Pound 256
F. Scott Fitzgerald 261
Robert Lee Frost 288
William Faulkner 296
Chapter VIII American Literature Since 1945 317
American Post-Modernism 317