Chapter One General Introduction I Background to English Literature Ⅱ A General Survey of American Literature Chapter Two Colonial and Revolutionary Periods I The Literature of Colonial America Anne Bradstreet Ⅱ The Literature of the Revolutionary Period Benjamin Franklin Chapter Three American Romanticism I The Rise of American Romanticism Ⅱ Early Romanticism Washington Irving James Fenimore Cooper Henry Wadsworth Longfellow William CuUen Bryant Ⅲ Tracendentalism Ralph Waldo Emeon Henry David Thoreau IV High Romanticism Nathanie Hawthorne Herman Melville Walt Whitman Emily Dickion Edgar Allan Poe Chapter Four American Realism I The Rise of Realism William Dean HoweUs Ⅱ Local Colorism Mark Twain Ⅲ Psychological Realism Henry James 1V American Naturalism Frank Norris Stephen Crane Theodore Dreiser Chapter Five American Modernism I American Modernism Ⅱ Imagism1 Ezra Pound T.S.Eliot William Carlos Willams Robert Frost ⅢThe“Lost Generation” F.Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway 1V Sherwood Andeon&；John Steinbeck Sherwood Andeon John Steinbeck V Southern Literature Willam Faulkner Flannery O‘Connor Ⅵ African American Literature Langston Hughes Ralph Ellison Chapter Six Postmodernism I Postmodernism Ⅱ Post-War Realism Jerome David Salinger Ⅲ Black Humor Joseph Heller 1V Jewish Literature Saul Bellow V Black Women Write Alice Walker Tony Morrison Chapter Seven American Drama I A Brief History of American Drama Ⅱ Modern American Playwright Eugene Gladstone O’Neill Tennessee Willams Arthur Miller Ⅲ Absurd Theater Edward Albee Bibliography
