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Foreword(For?the?3rd?Edition)／i
Foreword(For?the?2nd?Edition)??／v
Prefatory?Note(For?the?1st?Edition)／vii
Foreword?By?Wu?Fu-heng／ix
Introduction??／I
Chapters?1-26
1.Colonial?America／1?1
2.Edwards?Franklin?Crevecoeur／27
3.American?Romanticism?Irving?Cooper／40
4.New?England?Transcendentalism?Emerson?Thoreau／56
5.Hawthorne?Melville／70
6.Whitman?Dickinson／88
7.Edgar?Allan?Poe／104
8.The?Age?of?Realism?Howells?James／116
9.Local?Colorism?Mark?Twain／130
10.American?Naturalism?Crane?Norris?Dreiser?Robinson??／141
11.The?1920s?Imagism?Pound／154
12.T.S.Eliot?Stevens?Williams／171
13.Frost?Sandburg?Cummings?Hart?Crane?Moore／195
14.Fitzgerald?Hemingway／213
15.The?Southem?Renaissance?William?Faulkner／229
16.Anderson?Stein?Lewis?Cather?Wolfe／240
17.The?1930s?Dos?Passos?Steinbeck／254
18.Poner?Welty?McCullers?West?The?New?Criticism／269
19.American?Drama／283
20.Postwar?Poetry?Poets?of?the?1?940s?Generation／312
21.?The?Confessional?School·The?Beat?Generation??/345
22.?The?New?York?School·?Meditative?Poetry·The?Black?Mountain?Poets?/379
23.?Postwar?American?Novel?(I)???/411
24.?Postwar?American?Novel?(II)???/455
25.?Multiethnic?Literature?(I)???/503
26.?Multiethnic?Literature?(II)???/536
Notes?and?References??/567
Index??/599