CONTENTS

Foreword and Acknowledgments Introduction

Chapter 1 Colonial America：A New Land/A New Literature：Bradford，Bradstreet，Edwards

Chapter 2 The Revolutionary Period：An Emergent National Literature

Chapter 3 Early National Period：Irving，Bryant，Cooper

Chapter 4 A National Literature and Romantic Individualism

Chapter 5 Nathaniel Hawthorne（1804—1864）：Consummate Romantic

Chapter 6 M id-Century Poets：Edgar Allan Poe （1809—1849）and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow（1807—1882）

Chapter 7 Nature and the Individual：The Transcendentalism of Emerson （1803—82）and Thoreau（1817—62）

Chapter 8 T he Anti-Slavery Impulse：Stowe，Douglass，Lowell，Whittier

Chapter 9 Herman Melville（1819—1891）：Master of Philosophical Allegory

Chapter 10 An Experiment in Form：Walt Whitman（1819—1892）

Chapter 11 Emily Dickinson（1830—1886）：The Recluse of Amherst

Chapter 12 From Civil War to New Century： Industrialism and the Rise of

Literary Realism：Introductions to Howells，O．Henry

Chapter 13 Mark Twain（1835—1910）：The Man，The Humorist，T he Social Critie，The Pessimist

Chapter 14 Psychological Realism：Henry James（1843—1916）

Chapter 15 Inner Conflict：Edith Wharton（1862—1937）

Chapter 16 At the Turn of the Century：Muckraking and Reform，Naturalism

Chapter 17 Two Naturalists：Jack London and（1876—1916）Stephen Crane（1871—1900）

Chapter 18 Theodore Dreiser（1871—1945）：Naturalism and M oral Crisis in the Twentieth Century

Selected Bibliography

Index of Literary Works Used