Chapter 1 Early American Literature (1620--1810) 1.Introduction 2.The Literature of Colonial Period (1620--1700) 2.1 Introduction 2.2 John Smith, William Bradford and John Winthrop 2.2.1 John Srhith (1580--1631) 2.2.2 William Bradford (159~)--1657) 2.2.3 John Winthrop (1588--1649) 2.3 John Cotton, "Thomas Hooker and Roger Williams 2.3.1 John Cotton (1585--1652) 2.3.2 Thomas Hooker (1586--1647) 2.3.3 Roger Williams (1606--1683) 2.4 Anne Bradstreet, MiChael Wigglesworth and Edward Taylor 2.4.1 Anne Bradstreet (1613--1672) 2.4.2 Michael Wigglesworth (1631--1705) 2.4.3 Edward Taylor (1642--1729) 3.The Literature of Enlightemvent and Revolution (1700--1810) 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Benjamin Franklin (1706--1790) 3.3 Thomas Paine (1737--1809) 3.4 Thomas Jefferson (1743--1826) 3.5 Philip Freneau (1752--1832)Chapter 2 American Romanticism (1810--1865) 1.Introduction 2.Fiction 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Washington Irving (1783--1859) 2.3 James Fennimore Cooper (1789--1851) 2.4 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804--1864) 2.5 Herman Melville (1819--1891) 3.Non-fiction Prose 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803--1882) 3.3 Henry David Thoreau (1817--1862) 4.Poetry 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849) 4.3 Walt Whitman (1819--1892) 4.4 Emily Dickinson (1830--1886)Chapter 3 American Realism and Naturalism (1865--1914) 1.Introduction 2.Realism 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811--1896) 2.3 William Dean Howells (1837--1920) 2.4 Henry James (1843--1916) 2.5 Mark Twain (1835"--1910) 2.6 O.Henry (1862--1910) 3.Naturalism 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Stephen Crane (1871--1900) 3.3 Frank Norris (1870--t902) 3.4 Theodore Dreiser (1871--1945) 3.5 Jack London (1876--1916)Chapter 4 Literature Between Two World Wars (1914--1945) 1.Introduction 2.Realistic Fiction 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Sherwood Anderson (1876--1941) 2.3 John Steinbeck (1902--1968) 2.4 John Dos Passos (1896--1970) 3.Lost Generation Literature 3.1 Introduction 3.2 F.S.Fitzgerald (1896--1940) 3.3 Ernest Hemingway (1899--1961) 4.Southern Literature 4.1 Introduction 4.2 William Faulkner (1897--1962) 4.3 Katherine Anne Porter (1890--1980) 4.4 Robert Penn Warren (1905--1989) 4.5 Carson McCullers (1917--1967) 4.6 Eudora Welty(1909--2001) 4.7 Flannery O'Connor (1925--1964) 5.Modern Poetry 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Ezra Pound (1885--1972) 5.3 Wallace Stevens (1879--1955) 5.4 William Carlos Williams (1883--1963) 5.5 The Fugitive GrOup 5.6 Robert Frost (1874--1963) 5.7 Carl Sandburg (1878--1967) 6.African, American Literature 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Zora Neale Hurston (1891--1960) 6.3 Langston Hughes (1902--1967) 6.4, Sterling A, Brown (1901--1989) 6.5 Richard Wright (1908--1960) 7.The Rise of Modern American Drama 7.1 The Rise of Modern American Drama 7.2 Eugene O'Neill (1888--1953)Chapter 5 American Literature Since 1945 1.Introduction 2.Postmodern Fiction 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Black Humor Literature 2.2.1 Introduction 2.2.2 Joseph Heller (1923--1999) 2.2.3 Kurt Vonnegut (1922--2007) 2.2.4 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon (1937-- ) 2.3 Metafiction 2.3.1 Introduction 2.3.2 John Barth (1930-- ) 2.3.3 Donald Barthelme (1931--19.89) 2.4 Postmodern Realism 2.4.1 Introduction 2.4.2 Magical Realistic Writers 2.4.3 Raymond Carver (1938--1988) 2.4.4 Joyce Carol Oates (1938-- ) 2.5 Avant-Pop Literature 2.5.1 Introduction 2.5.2 Don DeLillo (1936-- ) 3.Realistic Fiction 3.1 Introduction 3.2 J.D.Salinger (1919--2010) 3.3 John Updike (1932--2009) 4.Postmodern Poetry 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Allen Ginsberg (192-6--1997) 4.3 Charles Olson (1910--1970) 4.4 Sylvia Plath (1932--1963) 4.5 Frank O'Hara (1926--1966) 4.6 Charles Bernstein (1950-- ) 4.7 Anne Waldman (1945-- ) 5.Jewish American Literature 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Saul Bellow (1915--2005) 5.3 Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904--1991) 5.4 Bernard Malamud (1914--1986) 5.5 Philip Roth (1933--) 6.African American Literature 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Ralph Ellison (1914--1994) 6.3 Gwendolyn Brooks (1917--2000) 6, 4 Amiri Baraka (1934-- ) 6.5 Toni Morrison (1931-- ) 6.6 Alice Walker (1944-- ) 7.Native American Literature 7.1 Introduction 7.2 N.Scott Momaday (1934-- ) 7.3 Leslie Marmon Silko (1948-- ) 8.Chinese American Literature 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Maxine Hong Kingston (1940-- ) 8.3 Amy Tan (1952-- ) 8.4 Frank Chin (1940-- ) 9.New Development in American Theatre 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Tennessee Williams (1911--1983) 9.3 Arthur Miller (1915--2005) 9.4 Edward Albee (1928-- )