Chapter One The Literature during the Colonial American Revolution Benjamin Franklin Chapter Two American Romanticism Edgar Allan Poe Henry David Thoreau Walt Whitman Herman Melville Chapter Three The Age of Realism and Naturalism Mark Twain Henry James Theodore Dreiser Chapter Four Twentieth-Century American Literature before the War Robert Frost Ezra Pound Thomas Steams Eliot Francis Scott Fitzgerald William Faulkner Ernest Hemingway John Steinbeck Chapter Five African-American Literature William Edward Burghardt Du Bois Langston Hughes Ralph Ellison James Baldwin Toni Morrison Chapter Six The Triumph of American Drama Eugene O'Neil Tennessee Williams Arthur Miller Chapter Seven Postwar American Literature Saul Bellow J.D.Salinger Joseph Heller