Chapter 1 Colonial America Chapter 2 Edwards·Franklin·Crevecocur Chapter 3 American Romanticism·Irving·Copper Chapter 4 New England Transcendentalism·Emerson·Thoreau Chapter 5 Hawthorne·Melville Chapter 6 Whitman·Dickinson Chapter 7 Edgar Allan Poe Chapter 8 The Age of Realism·Howells·James Chapter 9 Local Colorism·Mark Twain Chapter 10 American Naturalism·Crane·Norris·Dreiser·Robinson Chapter 11 The 1920s·Imagism·Pound Chapter 12 T. S. Eliot·Stevens·Williams Chapter 13 Frost·The Chicago Renaissance·Sandburg·Cummings·Hart Crane·Moore Chapter 14 Fitzgerald·Hemingway Chapter 15 The Southerm Renaissance·William Faulkner Chapter 16 Anderson·Stein·Lewis·Cather·Wolfe Chapter 17 The 1930s·Dos Passos·Steinbeck Chapter 18 Porter·Welty·McCullers·West·The New Criticism Chapter 19 American Drama Chapter 20 Postwar Poetry·Some Older Poets of the 1940s Generation Chapter 21 The Confessional School·The Beat Generation Chapter 22 The New York School·Meditative Poetry·The Black Mountain Poets Chapter 23 Postwar American Novel (I) Chapter 24 Postwar American Novel (II) Chapter 25 Multiethnic Literature (I): African American Literature Chapter 26 Multiethnic Literature (II): Other Minority Groups Notes and References