Preface
I.TheColonialPeriodand17thCenturyLiteratureofPuritanism
TheHistoricalBackground
TheDevelopmentofLiterature
II.ThePeriodofEnlightenment
TheHistoricalBackground
TheDevelopmentofLiterature
BenjaminFranklin
fromAutobiography
PhilipFreneau
TotheMemoryoftheBraveAmericans
TheWildHoneySuckle
III.NewEnglandTranscendentalismandtheRomanticAge
A.PeriodofPre-Romanticism
TheHistoricalBackground
TheDevelopmentofLiterature
WashingtonIrving
fromRipVanWinkl
WilliamCullenBryant
Thanatopsis
ToaWaterfowl
B.PeriodofPost-Romanticism
TheHistoricalBackground
TheDevelopmentofLiterature
EdgarAllanPoe
ToHelen
TheRaven
RalphWaldoEmerson
fromNature
TheRhodora
NathanielHawthorne
TheScarlteLetter
ChapterXIX
WaltWhitman
fromSongofMyself
WhenLilacsLastintheDooryardBloom’d
HenryWadsworthLongfellow
APsalmofLife
TheTideRises,theTideFalls
HarrietBeecherStowe
fromUncleTom’sCabin
EmilyDickinson
……
IV.TheAgeofRealism
V.AmericanNaturalism
VI.AmericanModernism
VII.AmericanLiteraturesince1945
Index
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