Chapter 1 American Literature Before the Nineteenth Century Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Autobiography Chapter 2 American Literature in the Romantic Period Washington Irving (1783-1859) Pip Van Winkle Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Walden Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) The Raven Annabelle Lee Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) Dr. Rappaccini's Daughter Walt Whitman (1819-1892) I Sit and Look Out One's-Self I Sing Chapter 3 American Literature of the Realist and Naturalistic Periods Mark Twain (1835-1910) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Henry James (1843-1916) Daisy Miller Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) Sister Carrie Chapter 4 American Literature in the Modern Period T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Robert Frost (1874-1963) The Road Not Taken Mending Wall F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) The Great Gatsby Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) A Clean Well-lighted House William Faulkner (1897-1962) A Rose for Emily Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) Long Day's Journey into Night Chapter 5 Ameriean Literature After World War II Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) A Streetcar Named Desire J. D. Salinger (1919-2010) The Catcher in the Rye Thomas Pynchon (1937-) Entropy Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) A Supermarket in California Toni Morrison (1931-2019) Home Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) Gimpel the Fool Saul Bellow (1915-2005) A Father-To-Be Maxine Hong Kingston (1940-) Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts Alice Walker (1944-) Everyday Use Bibliography