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Foreword(For the 2nd Edition)
Prefatory Note(For the 1st Edition)
Foreword By Wu Fu-heng
Permissions Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapters 1-26
1.Colonial America
2.Edwards·Franklin·Crevecoeur
3.American Romanticism·Irving·Cooper
4.New England Transcendentalism·Emerson·Thoreau
5.Hawthorne·Melville
6.Whitman·Dickinson
7.Edgar Allan Poe
8.The Age of Realism·Howells·James
9.Local Colorism·Mark Twain
10.American Naturalism·Crane·Norris·Dreiser·Robinson
11.The 1920s·Imagism·Pound
12.T.S.Eliot·Sandburg·Cummings·Hart Crane·Moore
13.Fitzgerald·Hemingway
14.Fitzgerald·Hemingway
15.The Southern Renaissance·William Faulkner
16.Anderson·Stein·Lewis·Cather·Wolfe
17.The 1930s·Dos Passos·Steinbeck
18.Porter·Welty·McCullers·West·The New Critism
19.American Drama
20.Postwar Poetry·Poets of the 1940sGeneration
21.The Confessional School·The Beat Generation
22.The New York School·Meditative Poetry·The Black Mountain Poest
23.The Postwar American Novel(Ⅰ)
24.The Postwar American Novel(Ⅱ)
25.Multiethnic Literature(Ⅰ)
26.Multiethnic Literature(Ⅱ)
Notes and Refernces
Index