Part One The Literature of Colonial America

  Historical Background

  ?William Bradford (1590-1657)

  ?John Winthrop (1588-1649)

  ?Anne Bradstreet (i6i2-1672)

  ?Edward Taylor (2645-1729)

  The Witchcraft Trials in the 1690s

Part Two The Literature of Reason and Revolution

  Historical Background

  ?Benjamin Franklin (i706-1790)

  ?Thomas Paine (2737-i809)

  ?Thomas Jefferson (2743-1826)

  ?Philip Freneau (1752-1832)

Part Three American Romanticism

  Historical Background

  Early Romanticism

  ?Washington Irving (1783-1895)

  ?James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)

  ?William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)

  Summit of Romanticism--Transcendentalism

  ?Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882i

  ?Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

  ?Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

  ?Nathaniel Hawthorne (2804-1864)

  ?Herman Melville (1819-1891)

  ?Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

  ?Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Part Four American Realism

  Debates over Slavery

  ?Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

  Historical Background after the Civil War

  ?Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

  ?Mark Twain (1835-1910)

  ?Henry James (1843-1916)

  Naturalism

  ?Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

  ?Jack London (1876-1916)

  ?O. Henry (1862-1910)

Part Five American Modernism

  Philosophical and Historical Background

  ?Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

  ?Robert Frost (1874-1963)

  ?F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

  ?Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

  ?William Faulkner (1897-1962)

  ?T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

  ?John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

  ?Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)

Part Six American Literature since 1945

  Philosophical and Historical Background

  ?Saul Bellow (1915-2005)

  ?Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)

  ?Arthur Miller (1915-2005)

  ?Toni Morrison (1931-)

  ?Alice Walker (1944-)

  ?Joseph Heller (1923-1999)

  ?Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)

  ?Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)

  ?J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)

  References