CONTENTS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

• EARLY AMERICAN AND COLONIAL PERIOD TO 1776

• The Literature of Exploration

• The Colonial Period in New England

• Literature in the Southern and Middle Colonies

• DEMOCRATIC ORIGINS AND REVOLUTIONARY WRITERS, 1776-1820

• The American Enlightenment

• The Political Pamphlet

• Neoclassism: Epic, Mock Epic, and Satire

• Poet of the American Revolution

• Writers of Fiction

• THE ROMANTIC PERIOD, 1820-1860 : ESSAYISTS AND POETS

• Transcendentalism

• Emily Dickinson

• THE ROMANTIC PERIOD, 1820-1860: FICTION

• The Romance

• The Women Writers: Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Civil War

• THE RISE OF REALISM,1860-1914

• Frontier Humor and Realism

• Cosmopolitan Novelist: Henry James

• Naturalism

• MODERNISM AND EXPERIMENTATION :1914-1945

• Modernism

• Poetry 1914-1945: Experiments in Form

• Between the Wars

• Prose Writing, 1914-1945: American Realism 

• Novels of Social Awareness

• The Harlem Renaissance

• Literary Currents: The Fugitives and New Criticism

• Twentieth Century American Drama

• AMERICAN POETRY SINCE 1945: THE ANTI-TRADITION

• Traditionalism

• Experimental Poetry

• The Black Mountain School

• The San Francisco School

• Beat Poets

• The New York School

• Woman and Multiethnic Poets

• New Directions

• AMERICAN PROSE SINCE 1945: REALISM AND EXPERIMENTATION

• The Realist Legacy And The Late 1940s

• The Affluent But Alienated 1950s

• The Turbulent But Creative 1960s

• The 1970s And 1980s: New Directions   

• The New Regionalism

• AMERICAN  CULTURAL CONCEPTS

• Jesse James

• Davy Crockett

• Pecos Bill

• Indian Folk Tales ( The Rocks of  Bryce Canyon)

• Westerners-Billy the Kid

• Sky Woman

• Draft Dodgers

• Druglore Folklore