Preface Part One The Early American Literature Chapter 1 The Immigration to the Americas and the English Settlement 1.1 The Immigration to the Americas 1.2 The English Settlement Chapter 2 The Literature of the New World 2.1 The Native American Oral Literature 2.2 The European Exploration Writings Chapter 3 The Literature of the Colonial America 3.1 The Literature in the Northern Colonies 3.2 The Writers in the Southern Colonies 3.3 The Writers in the Middle Colonies Part Two The Literature of the Revolutionary America Chapter 4 The Historical Context Chapter 5 The Voices of Reason and Revolution 5.1 Benjamin Franklin 5.2 Thomas Paine 5.3 Thomas Jefferson 5.4 Alexander Hamilton Chapter 6 The Creative Writing 6.1 Philip Freneau 6.2 Royall Tyler 6.3 William Hill Brown 6.4 Charles Brockden Brown 6.5 Hugh Henry Brackenridge Part Three The Romantic Literature Chapter 7 The American Romanticism 7.1 The Historical Context 7.2 The American Romanticism Chapter 8 The Early Romanticism 8.1 Washington Irving 8.2 James Fenimore Cooper 8.3 William Cullen Bryant Chapter 9 New England Transcendentalism 9.1 The Transcendental Club 9.2 Transcendentalism as a Philosophy 9.3 The Literary Achievements Chapter 10 The Antislavery Writing 10.1 The Historical Background 10.2 Harriet Beecher Stowe 10.3 Frederick Douglass 10.4 Harriet Ann Jacobs Part Four The Realistic Literature Chapter 11 The American Realism 11.1 The Historical Context 11.2 The American Realism Chapter 12 The Local-Color Writings 12.1 Mark Twain 12.2 Sarah Orne Jewett 12.3 George Washington Cable 12.4 Brett Harte Chapter 13 The Other Realist Writings 13.1 Henry James, Jr. 13.2 William Dean Howells 13.3 O. Henry Part Five The Naturalistic Literature Chapter 14 The Age of Naturalism 14.1 The Historical Context 14.2 Naturalism Chapter 15 The American Naturalism 15.1 Hamlin Garland 15.2 Stephen Crane 15.3 Frank Norris 15.4 Theodore Dreiser 15.5 Jack London Chapter 16 The New Women's Literature 16.1 Kate Chopin 16.2 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 16.3 Edith Wharton Part Six The Modernist Literature Chapter 17 The Age of Modernism 17. I The Historical Context 17.2 The Modernist Paradigms 17.3 Modernism 17.4 The American Modernism Chapter 18 The Literature in the Early Phase of Modernism 18.1 Edwin Arlington Robinson 18.2 Robert Frost 18.3 Carl Sandburg 18.4 Willa Cather 18.5 Sherwood Anderson 18.6 Gertrude Stein 18.7 Sinclair Lewis Chapter 19 The Modernist Poetry 19.1 The Imagist poetry 19.2 The Other Poets Chapter 20 The Fiction between the Wars 20.1 The Lost Generation 20.2 The Southern Literature 20.3 The 1930s' Fiction Chapter 21 The Drama between the Wars Chapter 22 The Afro-American Literature between the Wars 22.1 Jean Toomer 22.2 Langston Hughes 22.3 Zora Neale Hurston 22.4 Richard Wright Part Seven The Postwar Literature Chapter 23 The Diversity of the Postwar Era 23.1 The Historical Context 23.2 Existentialism 23.3 Postmodernism 23.4 Deconstruction Chapter 24 The Postwar Drama 24.1 Tennessee Williams 24.2 Arthur Miller 24.3 Edward Alhee Chapter 25 The Postwar Fiction 25.1 The War Novels 25.2 The Southern Fiction 25.3 The Jewish Novels 25.4 The Beat Novel and Alienation 25.5 The Realist-Modernist Inclinations 25.6 The Postmodernist Inclinations Chapter 26 The Postwar Poetry 26.1 The Beat Generation 26.2 The Confessional School 26.3 The New York School 26.4 The Black Mountain Poetry 26.5 The Meditative Poetry Chapter 27 The Postwar Multi-ethnic Literature 27.1 The Afro-American Literature 27.2 The Asian American Literature Key to Exercises Appendix I List of Winners of Pulitzer Prizes in Literature Appendix II List of Winners of National Book Awards Appendix III List of Winners of National Book Critics Circle Awards Appendix IV List of Winners of Tony Award for Best Play Appendix V List of Poets Laureate of the USA Appendix VI List of Books Referred to as Great American Novels References