PART I AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD1607?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