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