Part One Early American Literature
Chapter One Birth of American Literature
1. Introduction
1.1 A New Land
1.2 Puritan Ideas
1.3 Literary Characteristics
2. Jonathan Edwards(1703--1758)
3. Selected Writing
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Edwards
Chapter Two The Revolutionary Period
1. Introduction
1.1 Enlightenment Ideas
1.2 The American Revolution
1.3 Literature during the Revolutionary Period
2. Benjamin Franklin(1706--1790)
3. Thomas Jefferson(1743--1826)
4. Selected Writings
4. 1 The Autobiography(an excerpt) by Franklin
4.2 "The Declaration of Independence" by Jefferson
Chapter Three The Rise of a National Literature
1. Introduction
1.1 The Expanding Frontier
1.2 Growth of American Literature
2. Washington Irving(1783--1859)
3. James Fenimore Cooper(1789--1851)
3.1 Life and Career
3.2 The Pioneers(synopsis)
4. Selected Writing
"Rip Van Winkle" by Irving
Part Two American Literature between the 1820s and 1860s
Chapter Four Romanticism( I )
1. Introduction
1.1 Historical Background "
1.2 Literary Characteristics
1.3 New England Transcendentalism
2. Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803--1882)
3. Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804--1864)
3.1 Life and Career
3.2 The Scarlet Letter(synopsis)
4. Henry David Thoreau(1817--1862)
5. Walt Whitman(1819--1892)
6. Emily Dickinson(1830--1886)
7. Selected Writings
7.1 "Sel{-Reliance" (excerpts) by Emerson
7.2 "Young Goodman Brown" by Hawthorne
7.3 "The Village" (an excerpt from Walden) by Thoreau
7.4 "I Hear America Singing" by Whitman
7.5 "Song of Myself" by Whitman
7.6 "I Sit and Look Out" by Whitman
7.7 "O Captain! My Captain!" by Whitman
7.8 "I Never Saw a Moor" by Dickinson
7.9 "I Heard a Fly Buzz -- When I Died--" by Dickinson
7.10 "I Like to See it Lap the Miles--" by Dickinson
7.11 "I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain" by Dickinson
7.12 "Because I Could not Stop for Death--" by Dickinson
7.13 "Tell All the Truth But Tell it Slant" by Dickinson
7.14 "Apparently with No Surprise" by Dickinson
7.15 "As Imperceptibly As Grief " by Dickinson
Chapter Five Romanticism( I] )
1. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807--1882)
2. Edgar Allan Poe(1809--1849)
3. Herman Melville(1819--1891)
3.1 Life and Career
3.2 Moby-Dick (synopsis)
4. Selected Writings
4.1 "A Psalm of Life" by Longfellow
4.2 "Mezzo Cammin" by Longfellow
4.3 "To Helen" by Allan Poe
4.4 "Annabel Lee" by Allan Poe
4.5 "Eldorado" by Allan Poe
4.6 "The Raven" by Allan Poe
4.7 "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Allan Poe
Part Three American Literature between the 1860s and 1910s
Chapter Six Realism
1. Introduction
1.1 Historical Background
1.2 Literary Characteristics
2. Mark Twain(Samuel Langhorne Clemens)(1835--1910)
2.1 Life and Career
2.2 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(synopsis)
3. Henry James(1843--1916)
3.1 Life and Career
3.2 The Portrait of a Lady(synopsis)
4. O. Henry(1862--1910)
5. Selected Writings
5.1 "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Twain
5.2 "The Art of Fiction" (Excerpts) by James
5.3 "The Cop and the Anthem" by O. Henry
Chapter Seven Naturalism
1. Introduction
2. Stephen Crane(1871--1900)
2.1 Life and Career
2.2 The Red Badge of Courage(synopsis)
3. Theodore Dreiser(1871--1945)
3.1 Life and Career
3.2 Sister Carrie (synopsis)
4. Jack London(1876--1916)
5. Selected Writings
5.1 "An Episode of War" by Crane
5.2 "Black Riders Came from the Sea" by Crane
5.3 "A Youth in Apparel That Glittered" by Crane
5.4 "A Slant of Sun on Dull Brown Walls" by Crane
5.5 "The Law of Life" by London
Part Four American Literature between the Two World Wars
Chapter Eight Modernism( I )
1. Introduction
1.1 Social and Historical Background
1.2 Literary Characteristics
2. Robert Frost(1874--1963)
3. Wallace Stevens(1879--1955)
4. William Carlos Williams(1883--1963)
5. Ezra Pound(1885--1972)
6. T. S. Eliot(1888--1965)
7. Selected Writings
7.1 "The Road Not Taken" by Frost
7.2 "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Frost
7.3 "After Apple-Picking" by Frost
7.4 "Mending Wall" by Frost
7.5 "Sunday Morning" by Stevens
7.6 "Anecdote of the Jar" by Stevens
7.7 "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" by Stevens
7.8 "The Snow Man" by Stevens
7.9 "Portrait of a Lady" by Williams
7.10 "The Red Wheelbarrow" by Williams
7.11 "The Young Housewife" by Williams
7.12 "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" by Williams
7.13. "In a Station of the Metro" by Pound
7.14 "The River-Merchant's Wife;A Letter" by Pound
7.15 "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by Eliot
Chapter Nine Modernism( [[ )
1. Sherwood Anderson(1876--1941)
2. Eugene Gladstone O'Nei11(1888--1953)
2.1 Life and Career
2.2 Long Day ' s Journey into Night (synopsis)
3. F. Scott Fitzgerald(1896--1940)
3.1 Life and Career
3.2 The Great Gatsby (synopsis)
4. William Faulkner(1897--1962)
4.1 Life and Career
4.2 Absalom, Absalom! (synopsis)
5. Ernest Hemingway(1899--1961)
5.1 Life and Career
5.2 The Old Man and the Sea (synopsis)
6. Selected Writings
6.1 "Mother" (an excerpt from Winesburg, Ohio) by Anderson
6.2 Long Day's Journey into Night(an excerpt from Act IV) by O'Neill
6.3 "Babylon Revisited" by Fitzgerald
6.4 "A Rose for Emily" by Faulkner
6.5 "A Clean, Well-lighted Place" by Hemingway
Part Five Post-WW]T American Literature
Chapter Ten Postwar Realism and Ethnic Literature
1. Introduction
1.1 Historical Background
1.2 Literary Characteristics
2. Langston Hughes(1902--1967)
3. Charles Olson(1910--1970)
4. Saul Bellow(1915--2005)
4.1 Life and Career
4.2 Herzog(Synopsis)
5. J. D. Salinger(1919--2010)
5.1 Life and Career
5.2 The Catcher in the Rye(synopsis)
6. Joseph Heller(1923--1999)
6.1 Life and Career
6.2 Catch-22(Synopsis)
7. Flannery O'Connor(1925--1964)
8. Allen Ginsberg(1926--1997)
9. Toni Morrison(1931--)
9.1 Life and Career
9.2 Song of Solomon(synopsis)
10. Joyce Carol Oates(1938--)
10.1 Life and Career
10.2 Them(Synopsis)
11. Maxine Hong Kingston(1940--)
11.1 Life and Career
11.2 The Woman Warrior(synopsis)
12. Selected Writings
12.1 "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Hughes
12.2 "The Weary Blues" by Hughes
12.3 "Maximus, to Gloucester, Sunday, July 19" by Olson
12.4 "Graven Images" by Bellow
12.5 "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" by Salinger
12.6 "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" by O'Connor
12.7 "Howl" by Ginsberg
Bibliography
Part One Early American Literature
Chapter1 Birth of American Literature
Introduction
Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790)
Chapter2 The Rise of a National Literture
Introduction
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Part Two American Literature between 1820s-1860s
Chapter3 Romanticism
Introduction
Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1849)
Nathaniel Hawthoune(1804-1864)
Herman Melville(1819-1891)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807-1882)
Walt Whitman(1819-1892)
Emily Dickinson(1830-1886)
Transendentalism
Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862)
Part Thrre American Literature between 1860s-1910s
Chapter4 Realism
ntroduction
Mark Twain(Samuel Langhorne Clemens)(1835-1910)
O·Henry(1862-1910)
Chapter5 Naturalism
Introduction
Stephe Crane(1871-1900)
Jack London(1876-1916)
Part Four American Literature between 1910s-1960s
Introduction
Robert Frost(1874-1963)
Sherwood Anderson(1876-1941)
William Carlos Williams(1883-1963)
Ezra Pound(1885-1972)
Thomas Stearns Eliot(1888-1965)
F·Scott Fitzgerald(1896-1940)
William Faulkner(1897-1962)
Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961)
Chapter7 Postwar Realism
Introduction
J·D·Salinger(1919-)
