Preface I. The Colonial Period and 17th Century Literature of Puritanism The Historical Background The Development of Literature II. The Period of Enlightenment The Historical Background The Development of Literature Benjamin Franklin from Autobiography Philip Freneau To the Memory of the Brave Americans The Wild Honey Suckle III. New England Transcendentalism and the Romantic Age A. Period of Pre-Romanticism The Historical Background The Development of Literature Washington Irving from Rip Van Winkle William Cullen Bryant Thanatopsis To a Waterfowl B. Period of Post-Romanticism The Historical Background The Development of Literature Edgar Allan Poe To Helen The Raven Ralph Waldo Emerson from Nature The Rhodora Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlte Letter Chapter XIX Walt Whitman from Song of Myself When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom''d Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life The Tide Rises ,the Tide Falls Harriet Beecher Stowe from Uncle Tom''s Cabin Emily Dickinson 67 303 449 632 1129 IV. The Age of Realism The Historical Background The Development of Literature Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Chapter XIX Henry James from The Art of Fiction V. American Naturalism The Historical Background The Development of Literature Edwin Arlington Robinson Richard Cory Miniver Cheevy Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage Chapter 24 Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie Chapter I Robert Lee Frost Mending Wall The Road Not Taken Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening VI. American Modernism The Historical Background The Development of Literature Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms Chapter XLI F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Chapter III The Grapes of Wrath Chapter X T. S. Eliot The Waste Land I . The Burial of the Dead William Faulkner Dry September Eugene O''Neill Long Day''s Journey Into Night Act 2, Scene IIVII. American Literature since 1945 The Historical Background The Development of Literature Saul Bellow from Seize the Day Joseph Heller Catch-22 Chapter 40 Flannery O''Connor A Good Man Is Hard to Find Allen Ginsberg from Howl Alice Walker Everyday Use Index Main Reference Books
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