Chapter 1 Colonial and Revolutionary Period Lecture 1 Benjamin Franklin and The Autobiography Chapter 2 Age of Romanticism Lecture 2 Washington Irving and The Sketch Book Lecture 3 Nathanial Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter Lecture 4 Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass Lecture 5 Edgar Allen Poe and The Raven Chapter 3 Age of Transcendentalism Lecture 6 Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nature Chapter 4 Age of Realism Lecture 7 Local Colorism and Mark Twain Chapter 5 Age of Naturalism Lecture 8 Theodore Dreiser and Sister Carrie Chapter 6 Modern Poetry Lecture 9 Imagism and Ezra Pound Lecture 10 T.S.Eliot and The Waste Land Chapter 7 Modern Novels Lecture 11 Jazz Age and F.Scott Fitzgerald Lecture 12 Lost Generation and Ernest Hemingway Lecture 13 Southern Renaissance and William Faulkner Lecture 14 Depression Writers and John Steinbeck Chapter 8 Modern Dramas Lecture 15 Eugene Gladstone O'Neill and Long DayS Journey into the Night Lecture l6 Arthur Miller and The Death of a Salesman Lecture l7 Tennessee Williams and A Streetcar Named Desire Chapter 9 Contemporary Novels Lecture l8 Beat Generation and Jack Kerouac Lecture l9 J.D.Salinger and The Catcher in the Rye Lecture 20 Black Humor and Joseph Heller Lecture 21 Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse—Five Lecture 22 Ken Kesey and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest Lecture 23 Donald Barthelme and Meta—fiction Chapter 10 Contemporary Dramas Lecture 24 Theatre of Absurd and Edward Albee Chapter 11 Contemporary Poetry Lecture 25 Confessional School and Sylvia Plath Chapter l2 Jewish American Writers Lecture 26 Saul Bellow and Herzo9 Chapter l3 African American Literature Lecture 27 Ralph Ellison and Invisible Man Lecture 28 Toni Morrison and Beloved Chapter l4 Chinese American Literature Lecture 29 Maxine Hong Kingston and The Woman Warrior Lecture 30 Amy Tan and The joy Luck Club Appendix Glossary of Literary Terms