Introduction 1
Chapters 1
1. Colonial America 11
2. Edwards·Franklin·Crevecoeur 27
3. American Romanticism·Irving·Cooper 40
4. New England Transcendentalism·Emerson·Thoreau 56
5. Hawthorne·Melville 70
6. Whitman·Dickinson 88
7. Edgar Allan Poe 104
8. The Age of Realism·Howells·James 116
9. Local Colorism·Mark Twain 130
10. American Naturalism·Crane·Norris·Dreiser·Robinson 141
11. The 1920s·Imagism·Pound 154
12. T.S.Eliot·Stevens·Williams 172
13. Frost·Sandburg·Cummings·Hart Crane·Moore 198
14. Fitzgerald·Hemingway 218
15. The Southern Renaissance·William Faulkner 235
16. Anderson·Stein·Lewis·Cather·Wolfe 247
17. The 1930s·Dos Passos·Steinbeck 261
18. Porter·Welty·McCullers·West·The New Criticism 276
19. American Drama 290
20. Postwar Poetry·Poets of the 1940s Generation 320
21. The Confessional School·The Beat Generation 356
22. The New York School·Meditative Poetry.The Black Mountain Poets 393
23. The Postwar American Novel （Ⅰ） 428
24. The Postwar American Novel （Ⅱ） 472
25. Multiethnic Literature （Ⅰ） 520
26. Multiethnic Literature （Ⅱ） 554
Notes and References 585
Index 617