Unit One: Early American and Colonial Period to 1776 6学时
1.Indian Literature
2.The Literature of Exploration
3.The Colonial Period in New England
4.William Bradford (1590-1657)
5.Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672)
6.Cotton Mather (1663-1728)
7.Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
Unit Two: Democratic Origins and Revolutionary Writers, 1776-1820 6学时
1.The Background
2.The American Enlightenment
3.Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
4.The Political Pamphlet: Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
5.Neoclassism: Epic, Mock Epic, and Satire
6.Writers of Fiction
7.Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)
8.Washington Irving (1789-1859)
9.James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
Unit Tree: The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Essayists and Poets 8学时
1.The Background
2.Transcendentalism
2.Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
3.Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
4.Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
5.The Brahmin Poets
6.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
7.James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
8.Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Unit Four: The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction 6学时
1.The background
2.The Romance
3.Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
4.Herman Melville (1819-1891)
5.Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
6.Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Unit Five : The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914 10学时
1.The Background
2.Samuel Clemens (MARK TWAIN) (1835-1910)
3.Frontier Humor and Realism
4.Local Colorists
5.Midwestern Realism
6.Cosmopolitan Novelists
7.Naturalism and Muckraking
7.Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
9?Jack London (1876-1916)
10.Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
11.The “Chicago School” of Poetry
12.Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950)
13.Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
14.Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
15.Two Women Regional Novelists
16.The Rise of Black American Literature
Second Semester 36 hours
Unit Six: Modernism and Experimentation: 1914-1945 8学时
1.The Background
2.Modernism
3.Poetry 1914-1945: Experiments in form Poetry
4.Between the Wars
5.Prose Writing,1914-1945: American Realsm
6.Novels of Social Awareness
7.The Harlem Renaissance
8.Literary Cureents: The Fugitives and New Criticism
9.20th Century American Drama
Unit Seven : American Poetry Since 1945: The Anti-Tradition 10学时
1.The background
2.Traditionalism
2.Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
3.Idiosyncratic Poets
4.Experimental Poetry
5.The Black Mountain School
6.Beat Poets
8.The New York School
9.Surrealism and Existentialism
9.Women And Multiethnic Poets
10.Chicano/Hispanic/Latino Poetry
11.African-American Poetry
Unit Eight : American Prose Since 1945: Realism and Experimentation 10学时
1.Background
2.The Realist Legacy and The Late 1940s
3.The Affluent but Alienated 1950s
4.The Turbulent But Creative 1960s
5.The 1970s and 1980s: New Directions
6.The New Regionalism
7.The 21st Century
Unit Nine: Southern Literature 4学时
Unit Ten: African American Literature 2学时
Unit Eleven: Jewish American Literature 2学时