Chapter One American Transcendentalism and Romanticism
Introduction to the Background
Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Minister's Black Veil
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Walt Whitman
Selected Poems
Emily Dickinson
Selected Poems
Chapter Two American Realism
Introduction to the Background
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Henry James
Daisy Miller
Chapter Three American Naturalism
Introduction to the Background
Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
Robert Frost
Selected Poems
Chapter Four American Modernism
Introduction to the Background
Ezra Pound
In a Station of the Metro
Wallace Stevens
Selected Poems
William Carlos Williams
The Red Wheelbarrow
T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
William Faulkner
That Evening Sun
Ernest Hemingway
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
Eugene O'Neill
Long Day's Journey into Night
Chapter Five American Literature Since 1945
Introduction to the Background
Ralph Etlison
Invisible Man
Saul Bellow
Herzog
Toni Morrison
Beloved
Key
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