PART 1 THE EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE(1620-1770) Chapter ⅠThe Seventeenth Century Literature Puritanism in American Literature Chapter Ⅱ The Eighteenth Century Literature Enlightenment in American Literature Benjamin Franklin Philip Freneau PART Ⅱ THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM(1770-1875) Chapter Ⅲ American Literature of Pre-Romanticism The Rise of Romanticism Washington Irving William Cullen Bryant Chapter Ⅳ American Literature of Post-Romanticism New England Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson Walt Whitman Nathaniel Hawthorne Henry Wadsworth Longfellos Edgar Allan Poe Harriet Beecher Stowe Emily Dickinson PART Ⅲ THE AGE OF REALISM AND NATURALISM (1875-1914) ChapterⅤ American Literature of the Mid and Latle Nineteenth Century Realism in Ameriac Mark Twain Chapter Ⅵ American Literature at the Turn of the Century Naturalim in America Stephen Crane Edwin Arilington Robinson Theodore Dreiser PART Ⅵ THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Chapter Ⅶ American Literature between the Two World Wars American Modernism Ernest Hemingway Ezra Pound F.Scott Fitzgerald Robert Lee Frost William Faulkner Chapter Ⅷ American Literature Since 1945 American Post-Modernism