Part Ⅰ The Origin and Development of American Literature（Beginnings to 1860）

Unit 1 Benjamin Franklin（1706-1790）The Autobiography（excerpt）

Unit 2 Ralph Waldo Emerson（1803-1882）The American Scholar（excerpt）

Unit 3 Nathaniel Hawthorne（1804-1864）Young Goodman Brown

Unit 4 EdgarAllan Poe（1809-1849）The Tell-Tale Heart

Unit 5 HenryDavid Thoreau（1817-1862）Where I Lived,and What I Lived For

Unit 6 Frederick Douglass（1818-1895）Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass（excerpt）

Unit 7 Herman Melville（1819-1891）Bartleby,the Scrivener

Unit 8 19th CenturyAmerican Poets

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow（1807-1882）/A Psalm of Life

Edgar Allan Poe（1809-1849）/Annabel Lee

Walt Whitman（1819-1892）/Song ofMyself（excerpt）

Emily Dickinson（1830-1886）/Because I Could Not Stop for Death

Part Ⅱ American Literature Between the Civil War and the First World War（1860-1914）

Uhit 9 Mark Twain（1835-1910）The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Unit 10 Henry James（1843-1916）The Real Thing

Unit 11 Kate Chopin（1851-1904）A Respectable Woman

Unit 12 Theodore Dreiser（1871-1945）Sister Carrie（excerpt）

Unit 13 Upton Sinclair（1878-1968） The Jungle（excerpt）

Part Ⅲ American Literature Between the Two World Wars（1914-1945）

Unit 14 Eugene O'Neill（1888-1953）Desire Under the Elms（excerpt）

Unit 15 Zora Neale Hurston（1891-1960）Sweat

Unit 16 F.Scott Fitzgerald（1896-1940）The Great Gatsby（excerpt）

Unit 17 William Faulkner（1897-1962）A Rose for Emily

Unit 18 Ernest Hemingway（1899-1961）Soldier's Home

Unit 19 John Steinbeck（1902-1968）The Grapes of Wrath（excerpt）

Unit 20 20th CenturyAmerican Poets（Ⅰ）

Robert Frost（1874-1963）/The Road Not Taken

Carl Sandburg（1878-1967）/Chicago

Wallace Stevens（1879-1955）/Anecdote ofthe Jar

Ezra Pound（1885-1972）/The River-Merchant's Wife：A Letter

Langston Hughes（1902-1967）/The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Part Ⅳ Modern and Contemporary American Literature（1945-Present）

Unit 21 TennesseeWilliams（1911-1983）A Streetcar Named Desire（excerpt）

Unit 22 Arthur Miller（1915-2005）Death of a Salesman（excerpt）

Unit 23 Saul Bellow（1915-2005）A Father-to-Be

Unit 24 Joseph Heller（1923-1999）Catch-22（excerpt）

Unit 25 John Updike（1932-2009）A＆P

Unit 26 Toni Morrison（1931-）The Bluest Eye（excerpt）

Unit 27 Maxine Hong Kingston（1940-）The Woman Warrior（excerpt）

Unit 28 Louise Erdrich（1954-）The Red Convertible（Lyman Lamartine）

Unit 29 Sandra Cisneros（1954-）Woman Hollering Creek

Unit 30 20th CenturyAmerican Poets（Ⅱ）

Elizabeth Bishop（1911-1979）/Sestina

Robert Lowell（1917-1977）/For the Union Dead

Allen Ginsberg（1926-1997）/A Supermarket in California

Rita Dove（1952-）/Poem inWhich I Refuse Contemplation

Li-Young Lee（1957-）/The Gift

Part Ⅴ Writing Through Literature

Writing an Explication Paper

Writing a Literary Analysis

Writing a Comparison-Contrast Paper

Literary Terms