Chapter One Early American Literature Jonathan Edwards Benjamin Franklin
Chapter Two American Romanticism and Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Edgar Allan Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Herman Melville Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson
Chapter Three American Realism and American Naturalism Samuel Langhome Clemens Henry James Edith Wharton Stephen Crane Theodore Dreiser Jack London
Chapter Four American Modernism Ezra Pound Robert Frost Thomas Steams(T.S.)Eliot Sherwood Anderson Emest Hemingway William Faulkner Eugene O'Neill
Chapter Five Post-war American Literature Saul Bellow Arthur Miller Jerome David Salinger Flannery O'Connor Allen Ginsberg Raymond Garver Alice Wailer Gish Jen