Chapter 1:American Literature in the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods Benjamin Franklin Philip Freneau Chapter 2:19th Century American Literature Washington Irving James Fenimore Cooper Nathaniel Hawthorne Edgar Allan Poe Henry David Thoreau Herman Melville Walt WhitmanChapter 3:Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Literature Mark Twain Henry James Theodore Dreiser Jack LondonChapter 4:20th Century American Literature before World War II Robert Frost Ezra Pound F. Scott Fitzgerald William Faulkner Ernest Hemingway John SteinbeckChapter 5:20th Century African-American Literature William Edward Burghardt DuBois Langston Hughes Ralph Ellison James Baldwin Toni Morrison Alice WalkerChapter 6:20th Century American Drama Eugene O'neill Tennessee Williams Arthur MillerChapter 7:Post-War American Literature Saul Bellow J. D. Salinger Jack Kerouac Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Joseph Heller John Updike Amy Luth TanWorks Cited