Part Ⅰ Periods of American Literature Five Periods of American Literature Part Ⅱ The Literature of ColonialAmerica Historical Introduction Puritan Thoughts Influence on American Literature Colonial Literature Part Ⅲ The Literature of Reason and Revolution Historical Introduction Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Thomas Paine (1737-1809) Thomas Jefferson ( 1743-1826) Philip Frenean (1752-1832) Part Ⅳ The Literature of Romanticism Historical Introduction Washington Irving (1783-1859) James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) New England Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Nathaniel Hawthorne (I 804-1864) Herman Melville (1819-1891) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Part Ⅴ The Literature of Realism Historical Introduction Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) Mark Twain (1835-1910) O.Henry (1862-1910) Henry James (1843-1916) Jack London (1876-1916) Naturalism in America Theodore Dreiser (1871 - 1945) Part Ⅵ The Twentieth Century American Literature American Modernism Ezra Pound (1885-1972) Robert Frost (1874-1963) Thomas Steams Eliot (1888-1965) F Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899 - 1961) John Steinbeck(1902 - 1968) William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962) Some Literary Terms in American Literature References