Chapter 1 Early American Literature 1620--1810
1.Introduction
2.The Literature of Colonial Period 1620--1700
2.1 Introduction
2.2 John Smith, William Bradford and John Winthrop
2.2.1 John Srhith 1580--1631
2.2.2 William Bradford 159~--1657
2.2.3 John Winthrop 1588--1649
2.3 John Cotton, "Thomas Hooker and Roger Williams
2.3.1 John Cotton 1585--1652
2.3.2 Thomas Hooker 1586--1647
2.3.3 Roger Williams 1606--1683
2.4 Anne Bradstreet, MiChael Wigglesworth and Edward Taylor
2.4.1 Anne Bradstreet 1613--1672
2.4.2 Michael Wigglesworth 1631--1705
2.4.3 Edward Taylor 1642--1729
3.The Literature of Enlightemvent and Revolution 1700--1810
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Benjamin Franklin 1706--1790
3.3 Thomas Paine 1737--1809
3.4 Thomas Jefferson 1743--1826
3.5 Philip Freneau 1752--1832
Chapter 2 American Romanticism 1810--1865
1.Introduction
2.Fiction
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Washington Irving 1783--1859
2.3 James Fennimore Cooper 1789--1851
2.4 Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804--1864
2.5 Herman Melville 1819--1891
3.Non-fiction Prose
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803--1882
3.3 Henry David Thoreau 1817--1862
4.Poetry
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Edgar Allan Poe 1809--1849
4.3 Walt Whitman 1819--1892
4.4 Emily Dickinson 1830--1886
Chapter 3 American Realism and Naturalism 1865--1914
1.Introduction
2.Realism
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811--1896
2.3 William Dean Howells 1837--1920
2.4 Henry James 1843--1916
2.5 Mark Twain 1835"--1910
2.6 O.Henry 1862--1910
3.Naturalism
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Stephen Crane 1871--1900
3.3 Frank Norris 1870--t902
3.4 Theodore Dreiser 1871--1945
3.5 Jack London 1876--1916
Chapter 4 Literature Between Two World Wars 1914--1945
1.Introduction
2.Realistic Fiction
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Sherwood Anderson 1876--1941
2.3 John Steinbeck 1902--1968
2.4 John Dos Passos 1896--1970
3.Lost Generation Literature
3.1 Introduction
3.2 F.S.Fitzgerald 1896--1940
3.3 Ernest Hemingway 1899--1961
4.Southern Literature
4.1 Introduction
4.2 William Faulkner 1897--1962
4.3 Katherine Anne Porter 1890--1980
4.4 Robert Penn Warren 1905--1989
4.5 Carson McCullers 1917--1967
4.6 Eudora Welty1909--2001
4.7 Flannery O''Connor 1925--1964
5.Modern Poetry
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Ezra Pound 1885--1972
5.3 Wallace Stevens 1879--1955
5.4 William Carlos Williams 1883--1963
5.5 The Fugitive GrOup
5.6 Robert Frost 1874--1963
5.7 Carl Sandburg 1878--1967
6.African, American Literature
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Zora Neale Hurston 1891--1960
6.3 Langston Hughes 1902--1967
6.4, Sterling A, Brown 1901--1989
6.5 Richard Wright 1908--1960
7.The Rise of Modern American Drama
7.1 The Rise of Modern American Drama
7.2 Eugene O''Neill 1888--1953
Chapter 5 American Literature Since 1945
1.Introduction
2.Postmodern Fiction
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Black Humor Literature
2.2.1 Introduction
2.2.2 Joseph Heller 1923--1999
2.2.3 Kurt Vonnegut 1922--2007
2.2.4 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon 1937--
2.3 Metafiction
2.3.1 Introduction
2.3.2 John Barth 1930--
2.3.3 Donald Barthelme 1931--19.89
2.4 Postmodern Realism
2.4.1 Introduction
2.4.2 Magical Realistic Writers
2.4.3 Raymond Carver 1938--1988
2.4.4 Joyce Carol Oates 1938--
2.5 Avant-Pop Literature
2.5.1 Introduction
2.5.2 Don DeLillo 1936--
3.Realistic Fiction
3.1 Introduction
3.2 J.D.Salinger 1919--2010
3.3 John Updike 1932--2009
4.Postmodern Poetry
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Allen Ginsberg 192-6--1997
4.3 Charles Olson 1910--1970
4.4 Sylvia Plath 1932--1963
4.5 Frank O''Hara 1926--1966
4.6 Charles Bernstein 1950--
4.7 Anne Waldman 1945--
5.Jewish American Literature
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Saul Bellow 1915--2005
5.3 Isaac Bashevis Singer 1904--1991
5.4 Bernard Malamud 1914--1986
5.5 Philip Roth 1933--
6.African American Literature
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Ralph Ellison 1914--1994
6.3 Gwendolyn Brooks 1917--2000
6, 4 Amiri Baraka 1934--
6.5 Toni Morrison 1931--
6.6 Alice Walker 1944--
7.Native American Literature
7.1 Introduction
7.2 N.Scott Momaday 1934--
7.3 Leslie Marmon Silko 1948--
8.Chinese American Literature
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Maxine Hong Kingston 1940--
8.3 Amy Tan 1952--
8.4 Frank Chin 1940--
9.New Development in American Theatre
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Tennessee Williams 1911--1983
9.3 Arthur Miller 1915--2005
9.4 Edward Albee 1928--