PART I AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD(1607?1700)
Historical Introduction
American Puritanism
Early New England Literature
John Smith
John Cotton
Roger Williams
Anne Bradstreet
Edward Taylor
PART II AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF REASON AND REVOLUTION (1700?1800)
Historical Introduction
Enlightenment and American Revolution
Neoclassicism
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
Philip Freneau
PART III AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1800?1865)
Historical Introduction
Literary Characteristics
Romanticism
American Romanticism
American Transcendentalism
Washington Irving
His Life and Writing Career
Analyses of and Comments on His Representative Short Stories
Rip Van Winkle (1819)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
James Fenimore Cooper
His Life and Writing Career
Analysis of and Comment on His Representative Novel
The Pioneers (1823)
William Cullen Bryant
His Life and Writing Career
Analysis of and Comment on His Representative Poem
Thanatopsis (1817, 1821)
Edgar Allan Poe
His Life and Writing Career
Analyses of and Comments on His Representative Works
The Raven (1845)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
His Life and Writing Career
Analyses of and Comments on His Representative Works
Nature (1836)
Self-Reliance (1837)
Henry David Thoreau
His Life and Writing Career
Analysis of and Comment on His Representative Work
Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
His Life and Writing Career
Analysis of and Comment on His Representative Novel
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Herman Melville
His Life and Writing Career
Analysis of and Comment on His Representative Novel
Moby-Dick or The Whale