Chapter 1: Early American Literature
to 1700
Chapter 2: Early American Literature 1700-1800
Selected Bibliography Introduction John Adams and Abigail Adams Elizabeth Ashbridge H. H. Brackenridge Charles Brockden Brown William Hill Brown William Byrd The Connecticut Wits St. Jean De Crevecoeur Jonathan Edwards Olaudah Equiano Hannah Webster Foster Benjamin Franklin Philip Freneau Jupiter Hammon Thomas Jefferson Sarah Kemble Knight Judith Sargent Murray Samuel Occum Thomas Paine Francisco Palou Susanna Rowson Royall Tyler Mercy Otis Warren Phillis Wheatley John WoolmanChapter 3: Nineteenth Century to 1865 and Romanticism
Selected
Bibliography Introduction William Apess Elias Boudinot William Wells Brown William Cullen Bryant Alice and Phoebe Cary James Fenimore Cooper George Copway Davy Crockett Maria Susanna Cummins Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Martin Robison Delany Frederick Douglass Fanny Fern Josiah Gregg Nathaniel Hawthorne Caroline Lee Hentz Oliver Wendell Holmes Washington Irving Harriet A. Jacobs Caroline Kirkland Henry Clay Lewis Lewis and Clark Expedition George Lippard Henry Wadsworth Longfellow James Russell Lowell Herman Melville Anna Cora Mowatt John Neal Mordecai Noah Frederick Law Olmsted James Kirke Paulding Edgar Allan Poe John Rollin Ridge Rebecca Rush Catharine Maria Sedgwick Lydia Sigourney William Gilmore Simms Harriet Prescott Spofford Elizabeth Stoddard Harriet Beecher Stowe Alexis de Tocqueville Frederick Goddard
Tuckerman David Walker Susan and Anna Warner Frank J. Webb Harriet E. Adams Wilson
Chapter 4: Nineteenth
Century to 1865 and Transcendentalism
Selected Bibliography Introduction The Anti-Slavery Movement The Utopian Movement The Women's Rights Movement Amos Bronson Alcott Susan B. Anthony Orestes Augustus Brownson William Ellery Channing William Henry Channing Mary Boykin Chesnut Lydia Maria Child James Freeman Clarke Christopher Pearse Cranch Caroline Dall Emily Dickinson John Sullivan Dwight Ralph Waldo Emerson Margaret Fuller William Lloyd Garrison Horace Greeley Sarah & Angelina Grimke Frederick Henry Hedge Julia Ward Howe Abraham Lincoln James Marsh Theodore Parker Elizabeth Palmer Peabody Wendell Phillips George Ripley and Brook Farm Elizabeth Cady Stanton Henry David Thoreau Sojourner Truth Jones Very Walt Whitman John Greenleaf Whittier
Chapter 5: Late Nineteenth Century and RealismSelected Bibliography Introduction Henry Adams Louisa May Alcott Horatio Alger María Amparo Ruiz de Burton George Washington Cable Rebecca Harding Davis Alice Dunbar-Nelson Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Bret Harte Thomas Wentworth Higginson Joel Chandler Harris William Dean Howells Helen Hunt Jackson Henry James Sarah Orne Jewett Grace King Sidney Lanier José Martí Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Mark Twain Constance Fenimore Woolson
Chapter 6: Late Nineteenth Century: 1890-1910 and Naturalism
Selected Bibliography Introduction Mary Antin Ambrose Bierce Nellie Bly Charles Waddell Chesnutt Kate Chopin Ina Coolbrith Stephen Crane Theodore Dreiser Paul Laurence Dunbar Charles Alexander Eastman Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Hamlin Garland Charlotte Perkins Gilman Lafcadio Hearn O. Henry Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Jack London Frank Norris Frank Norris
Chapter 7: Early Twentieth Century and Modernism
Selected
Bibliography Introduction Conrad Aiken Sherwood Anderson Mary Austin Djuna Barnes Stephen Vincent Benét John Peale Bishop Black Elk Louise Bogan Randolph Bourne Kay Boyle Louise Bryant Pearl S. Buck Edgar Rice Burroughs Witter Bynner James Branch Cabell Willa Cather Erskine Caldwell Hart Crane E. E. Cummings H.D. John Dos Passos Richard Eberhart T. S. Eliot James T. Farrel William Faulkner F. Scott Fitzgerald Robert Francis Robert Frost Ellen Glasgow Michael Gold Emma Goldman Caroline Gordon Ernest Hemingway Robert E. Howard Robinson Jeffers Ring Lardner Sinclair Lewis Vachel Lindsay H. P. Lovecraft Amy Lowell Mina Loy Archibald Macleish Edgar Lee Masters Mary McCarthy D'arcy McNickle H. L. Mencken Edna St. Vincent Millay Marianne Moore Mourning Dove John O'Hara Dorothy Parker Katherine Anne Porter Ezra Pound John Crowe Ransom Saunders Redding John Reed Charles Reznikoff Elizabeth Madox Roberts Edwin Arlington Robinson Carl Sandburg William Saroyan Upton Sinclair Gertrude Stein John Steinbeck Wallace Stevens Allen Tate Sara Teasdale James Thurber Robert Penn Warren Nathanael West Edith Wharton Laura Ingalls Wilder William Carlos Williams Thomas Wolfe Richard Wright Elinor Wylie Anzia Yezierska Louis Zukofsky
Chapter 8: American Drama
Selected
Bibliography Introduction Zoe Akins Edward Albee Maxwell Anderson George Axelrod Philip Barry Dion Boucicault Ed Bullins Paddy Chayefsky Alice Childress William Dunlap Edna Ferber Charles Fuller William Gibson Susan Glaspell Paul Green A. R. Gurney Lorraine Hansberry Lillian Hellman Sidney Howard William Inge George Kaufman David Mamet Terrence McNally Arthur Miller Anna Cora Mowatt Clifford Odets Eugene O'Neill Elmer RiceElmer Rice Willis Richardson Ntozake Shange Sam Shepard Neil Simon Anna Deavere Smith Royall Tyler Luis Valdez Wendy Wasserstein Thorton Wilder Tennessee Williams August Wilson Lanford Wilson
Chapter 9: Harlem
Renaissance
Selected
Bibliography Introduction Research and Study Topics Gwendolyn Bennett Blues Lyrics Marita Bonner Arna Bontemps Sterling A Brown Countee Cullen W. E. B. Du Bois Jessie Redmon Fauset Rudolph Fisher Marcus Garvey Angelina Weld Grimke Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston Charles Spurgeon Johnson James Weldon Johnson Nella Larsen Alain Locke Claude McKay Richard Bruce Nugent Mary White Ovington Willis Richardson George Schuyler Anne Spencer Wallace Thurman Jean Toomer Carl Van Vechten Eric Walrond Dorothy West Walter White
Chapter 10: Late Twentieth Century and Postmodernism
Selected Bibliography Introduction James Agee Sherman Alexie Dorothy Allison A. R. Ammons Rudolfo Anaya Maya Angelou Gloria Anzaldúa John Ashbery James Baldwin Toni Cade Bambara Amiri Baraka John Barth Donald Barthelme Saul Bellow John Berryman Elizabeth Bishop Robert Bly Paul Bowles Ray Bradbury Richard Brautigan Gwendolyn Brooks Joseph Bruchac Charles Bukowski Carlos Bulosan William S. Burroughs Truman Capote Raymond Carver Raymond Chandler John Cheever Frank Chin John Ciardi Sandra Cisneros Lucille Clifton Robert Creeley Victor Hernandez Cruz Don DeLillo James Dickey Joan Didion E. L. Doctorow Rita Dove Robert Duncan Ralph Ellison Louise Erdrich Mari Evans William Everson Lawrence Ferlinghetti John Gardner Allen Ginsberg Nikki Giovanni Jessica Hagedorn Joy Harjo Michael S. Harper E. Lynn Harris Robert Hayden Robert Heinlein Joseph Heller Tony Hillerman John Hersey Oscar Hijuelos Ronaldo Hinojosa-Smith Lawson Inada Randall Jarrell Gish Jen June Jordan Jack Kerouac Ken Kesey Maxine Hong Kingston Galway Kinnell Carolyn Kizer Etheridge Knight Yusef Komunyakaa Maxine Kumin Stanley Kunitz Harper Lee Li-Young Lee Ursula K. Le Guin Denise Levertov Ira Levin Philip Levine Audre Lorde Robert Lowell Norman Mailer Bernard Malamud Paule Marshall Cormac McCarthy Frank McCourt Carson McCullers James Merrill W. S. Merwin Josephine Miles Henry Miller N. Scott Momaday Pat Mora Toni Morrison Bharati Mukherjee Vladimir Nabokov Howard Nemerov Lorine Niedecker Joyce Carol Oates Tim O'Brien Flannery O'Connor Frank O'Hara Tellie Olsen Charles Olson George Oppen Simon Ortiz Cynthia Ozick Grace Paley Ann Petry Pedro Pietri Sylvia Plath Chaim Potok Thomas Pynchon Ayn Rand John Crowe Ransom Ishmael Reed Kenneth Rexroth Anne Rice Adrienne Rich Tomás Rivera Richard Rodriguez Theodore Roethke Wendy Rose Philip Roth Muriel Rukeyser J. D. Salinger Sonia Sanchez Anne Sexton Leslie Marmon Silko W. D. Snodgrass Gary Snyder Susan Sontag Gary Soto Terry Southern William Stafford Wallace Stegner William Styron Gay Talese Amy Tan Hunter S. Thompson Melvin B. Tolson John Updike Gore Vidal Helena Maria Viramontes Gerald Vizenor Kurt Vonnegut Alice Walker Margaret Walker David Foster Wallace James Welch Eudora Welty Colson Whitehead John Wideman Richard Wilbur C. K. Williams Tom Wolfe James Wright Hisaye Yamamoto Richard Yates
Appendix A: Useful Resources for Research Appendix
B: Minorities and Women
Studies: African
-American Studies Native-American
Studies Asian-American
Studies Gay &
Lesbian Studies Hispanic
& Mexican-American Studies Jewish-American
Studies Women
Studies Appendix
C: American Fiction Appendix
D: Writing Assignments Appendix
E: The Theme of Alienation and Initiation and the
Immigrant Experience Appendix
F: Elements of Poetry
Appendix G: Elements of Fiction
Appendix H: Elements of Drama
Appendix I: The MLA Style
Appendix J: Research Topics
Appendix K: American Literary History
& Theory
Appendix L: The Frontier in American
Literature Appendix
M: Film Criticism and
American Literature Appendix N: American Gothic in
Literature
Appendix O: Selected Studies in
American Poetry
Appendix P: American Literature and
California
Appendix Q: American Folklore Appendix R: American Humor, Satire,
and Wit
Appendix S: The American Dream
Appendix T: Manifest Destiny
Appendix U: Nature, Ecocriticism,
& Ecofeminism
Appendix V: The American City in
Literature and Culture
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