1. An Introduction to American Literature Instructor: Monica

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3. An Outline of American Literature  I. The American Literature in Colonial and Revolutionary Period  II. The Literature of Romanticism  III. The Literature of Realism  IV. Twentieth Century Literature Modernism and Experimentation  V. American Literature since 1945

4. Part I. The American Literature in Colonial and Revolutionary Period  Historical background  American Puritanism  The Influence of American Puritanism on American thought and Literature  The characteristics of American literature in this period  The Major Representatives in the Early American Literature  Thomas Paine; Thomas Jefferson; Benjamin Franklin; Philip Freneau

5. Part II The Literature of Romanticism  Chapter One: The Literature of the Early Romanticism  Historical Background  The Characteristics of the Literature in this Period  The Major Representative writers:  Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleeping Hollow; James Fenimore Cooper: The Leather of Stocking Tales; William Cullen Bryant: Thanatopsis; To a Waterfowl

6. Part II The Literature of Romanticism  Chapter Two: American Transcendentalism  The meaning of Transcendentalism and its Influence  The Major Representatives Writers  Emerson: Nature, Self-reliance  Thoreau: The Walden  Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter  Melville: Moby Dick  Poe: To Helen; The Fall of the House of Usher  Longfellow: A Psalm of Life  Whitman and Dickinson

7. Part III The Literature of Realism (1860—1914)  Chapter One The Literature of Realism (1860— 1890)  The Principle of Realism  The Local Color Movement: Mark Twain  The Psychoanalytical Realism: Henry James

8. Chapter Two The Literature of American Naturalism (1890—1914)  The Rise of American Naturalism: Stephen Crane, and Frank Norris  The Tenets of Naturalism  Jack London: The Sea Wolf  Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie 

9. Part IV Twentieth Century Literature Modernism and Experimentation (1914—1945 )  Chapter One A merican Poetry between the Two Wars  Modernism  Imagism in poetry  Ezra Pound; T S Eliot; Robert Frost;  Carl Sandburg 

10. Part IV Twentieth Century Literature Modernism and Experimentation (1914— 1945 )  Chapter Two American Fiction between the Two Wars  F. Scott Fitzgerald  Ernst Hemingway  John Steinbeck  William Faulkner

11. Reference Books  An outline of American literature /High, Peter B. /London :Longman,1986  美国文学史 =The history of American literature/ 常耀 信著 / 天津 : 南开大学出版社,1998  The Cambridge handbook of American literature / Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ;Cambridge University Press,1986.  A Brief Introduction to Modern American Literature/B. BOOZ/ 上海 : 上海外语教育出版社 

12. Reference Books  美国文学大纲 / 吴定柏编著 / 上海 : 上海外语教育出版 社,1998.  美国文学背景概观 / 史志康 / 上海 : 上海外语教育出版 社,1998.  The Discourse of American Literature./Bruce A. Ronda/ 上海 : 上海外语教育出版社,1991  The Oxford Companion to American Literature /Hart, James D. /New York: Oxford University Press1965