Chapter One American Transcendentalism and Romanticism Introduction to the Background About the Author Washington Irving Selected Reading Rip Van Winkle About the Author Edgar Allan Poe Selected Reading The Raven About the Author Ralph Waldo Emerson Selected Reading Self-Reliance About the Author Nathaniel Hawthorne Selected Reading The Minister's Black Veil About the Author Herman Melville Selected Reading Moby Dick About the Author Emily Dickinson Selected Reading Selected Poems Chapter Two American Realism Introduction to the Background About the Author Mark Twain Selected Reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn About the Author Henry James Selected Reading Daisy Miller Chapter Three American Naturalism Chapter Four American Modernism Chapter Five American Literature Since 1945 Key References