PART Ⅰ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE ROMANTIC PERIOD （1800—1865）
Romanticism： A Historical Introduction
Literary Characteristics
Romanticism
American Romanticism
American Transcendentalism
Unit 1 Washington Irving
Unit 2 James Fenimore Cooper
Unit 3 William Cullen Bryant
Unit 4 Edgar Allan Poe
Unit 5 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unit 6 Henry David Thoreau
Unit 7 Nathaniel Hawthorne
Unit 8 Herman Melville
Unit 9 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
PART Ⅱ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE REALISTIC PERIOD （1865—1900）
Realism and Naturalism： A Historical Introduction
Realism
Psychological Realism
Naturalism
Unit 10 Walt Whitman
Unit 11 Emily Dickinson
Unit 12 Harriet Beecher Stowe
Unit 13 Mark Twain
Unit 14 Henry James
Unit 15 Edith Wharton
Unit 16 Jack London
Unit 17 Theodore Dreiser
Unit 18 Willa Cather
PART Ⅲ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE MODERN PERIOD （1900—1945）
Modernism： A Historical Introduction
The Development of Literature
Modernism
Terms of Modernist Literature
Bibliography
Unit 1 Ezra Pound
Unit 2 Robert Frost
Unit 3 Wallace Stevens
Unit 4 T. S. Eliot
Unit 5 F. Scott Fitzgerald
Unit 6 Ernest Hemingway
Unit 7 William Faulkner
Unit 8 Eugene O’Neill
Unit 9 Arthur Miller
PART Ⅳ AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE POSTMODERN PERIOD （1945–）
Postmodernism： A Historical Introduction
Postmodernism
Postmodernist Fiction
Metafiction
Terms of Postmodernist Literature
Bibliography
Unit 10 Robert Lowell
Unit 11 Charles Olson
Unit 12 Joseph Heller
Unit 13 Kurt Vonnegut
Unit14 John Barth
Unit15 Donald Barthelme
Unit 16 Thomas Pynchon
Unit 17 Vladimir Nabokov
Unit 18 Tony Morrison