Chapter 1:

American Literature in the Colonial and Revolutionary PeriodsBenjiamin Franklin

Philip Freneau

Chapter 2:

19th Century American Literature

Washington Irving

James Fenimore Cooper

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Edgar Allan Poe

Henry David Thoreau

Herman Melville

Walt Whitman

Chapter 3:

Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Literature

Mark Twain

Henry James

Theodore Dreiser

Jack London

Chapter 4:

20th Century American Literature before World War Ⅱ

Robert Frost

Ezra Pound

F. Scott Fitzgerald

William Faulkner

Ernest Hemingway

John Steinbeck

Chapter 5:

20th Century African-American Literature

William Edward Burghardt DuBois

Langston Hughes

Ralph Ellison

James Baldwin

Toni Morrison

Alice Walker

Chapter 6:

20th Century American Drama

Eugene O'neill

Tennessee Williams

Arthur Miller

Chapter 7:

Post-War American Literature

Saul Bellow

J. D. Salinger

Jack Kerouac

Kurt Vonnegut,Jr

Joseph Heller

John Updike

Amy Luth Tan

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