Part ��The Early American Literature
Chapter ��.The Literature of Colonial America
��.The Background
��.The Literature of Colonial America
Chapter II.The Literature of Revolutionary America(1700��1800)
��.The Background
��.The Literature of Revolutionary America
��.Benjamin Franklin and The Autobiography
��.Thomas Jefferson and The Declaration of Independence
Part �� American Romanticism
Chapter ��.Historical Background
Chapter II.Literary Features and Writers
��.Washington Irving and Rip Van Winkle
������1.Irving's life and literary works
������2.Rip Van Winkle
������.Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nature
������1.Emerson's life and literary works
������2.Nature
��.Nathaniel Hawthorne and Scarlet Letter
������1.Hawthorne's life and literary works
2.The Scarlet Letter
��.Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass
������1.Whitman's life and literary works
2.Leaves of Grass
��.Herman Melville and Moby Dick
������1.Melville's life and literary works
2.Moby Dick
Part ��American Realism and Naturalism
��Chapter ��.Realism
������.Historical Background
������.The Literary Characteristics of the Realism
��.Mark Twain and The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
1.Mark Twain's life and his literary career
������2.The Celebrated Jumping Frog
��.Henry James and The Portrait of a Lady
������1.Henry James'life and his literary career
������2.The Portrait of a Lady
��.Emily Dickenson and a Poem
������1.Emily Dickenson's life and her literary career
2.A poem
Chapter ��.Naturalism
������.Historical Background
������.The Literary Characteristics of the Naturalistic Period in America Literature
������.Theodore Dreiser and Sister Carrie
������1.Theodore Dreiser's life and life career
2.An American Tragedy
3.Sister Carrie
��.Jack London and The Call of the Wild
������1.Jack London's life and his literary career
2.The Call of the Wild
Part ����American Modernism
Chapter ��.The Historical Background
Chapter ��.Literary Features and Major Writers
Chapter ��.Major writers
������.Ernest Hemingway and For Whom the Bell Tolls
������1.Hemingway's life and literary works
2.For whom the Bell Tolls
������.F.Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby
1.F.Scott Fitzgerald's life and literary works
2.The Great Gatsby
������.John Ernst Steinbeck and The Grapes of Wrath
1.John Steinbeck's life and literary works
2.The Grapes of Wrath
��.Ezra Pound and a Poem
1.Ezra Pound's life and his works
2.A poem
��.Thomas Stearns Eliot and The Waste Land
1.T.S.Eliot's life and literary works
2.The Waste Land
������.William Faulkner and Light in August
1.William Faulkner's life and literary works
������2.Light in August
������.Robert Frost and Mending Wall
������1.Frost's life and literary works
2.Mending Wall
������.Eugene O'Neill and The Hairy Ape
������1.Eugene O'Neill's life and literary works
2.The Hairy Ape
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