- 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)