PART I AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD(1607?1700) Historical Introduction American Puritanism Early New England Literature John Smith John Cotton Roger Williams Anne Bradstreet Edward Taylor PART II AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF REASON AND REVOLUTION (1700?1800) Historical Introduction Enlightenment and American Revolution Neoclassicism Benjamin Franklin Thomas Paine Thomas Jefferson Philip Freneau PART III AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1800?1865) Historical Introduction Literary Characteristics Romanticism American Romanticism American Transcendentalism Washington Irving His Life and Writing Career Analyses of and Comments on His Representative Short Stories Rip Van Winkle (1819) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow James Fenimore Cooper His Life and Writing Career Analysis of and Comment on His Representative Novel The Pioneers (1823) William Cullen Bryant His Life and Writing Career Analysis of and Comment on His Representative Poem Thanatopsis (1817, 1821) Edgar Allan Poe His Life and Writing Career Analyses of and Comments on His Representative Works The Raven (1845) The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) Ralph Waldo Emerson His Life and Writing Career Analyses of and Comments on His Representative Works Nature (1836) Self-Reliance (1837) Henry David Thoreau His Life and Writing Career Analysis of and Comment on His Representative Work Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854) Nathaniel Hawthorne His Life and Writing Career Analysis of and Comment on His Representative Novel The Scarlet Letter (1850) Herman Melville His Life and Writing Career Analysis of and Comment on His Representative Novel Moby-Dick or The Whale