Chapter One American Transcendentalism and Romanticism 1
Introduction to the Background 1
Edgar Allan Poe 3
The Raven 5
Ralph Waldo Emerson 10
Self-Reliance 11
Nathaniel Hawthorne 20
The Minister's Black Veil 22
Herman Melville 34
Moby Dick 35
Walt Whitman 44
Selected Poems 46
Emily Dickinson 48
Selected Poems 50
Chapter Two American Realism 57
Introduction to the Background 57
Mark Twain 59
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 60
Henry James 75
Daisy Miller 77
Chapter Three American Naturalism 92
Introduction to the Background 92
Stephen Crane 94
The Red Badge of Courage 95
Robert Frost 113
Selected Poems 115
Chapter Four American Modernism 119
Introduction to the Background 119
Ezra Pound 123
In a Station of the Metro 125
Wallace Stevens 126
Selected Poems 128
William Carlos Williams 134
The Red Wheelbarrow 135
T.S. Eliot 137
The Waste Land 139
Francis Scott Fitzgerald 146
The Great Gatsby 148
William Faulkner 174
That Evening Sun 176
Ernest Hemingway 191
A Clean，Wcll-Lighted Place 193
John Steinbeck 198
The Grapes of Wrath 199
Eugene O'Neill 210
Long Day's Journey into Night 212
Chapter Five American Literature Since 1945 235
Introduction to the Background 235
Ralph Ellison 239
Invisible Man 240
Saul Bellow 253
Herzog 255
Toni Morrison 276
Beloved 278
Key 288
References 298