Table des matières

• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• PART 1 THE COLONIAL PERIOD 1650–1765
  • POLITICS AND SOCIETY * LITERATURE AND THE ARTS **
  • Literature and Society
  • Major Trends in Literature
    • Historical works
    • Biographies and Diaries
    • Sermons and Theological Works
    • Poetry
  • Literature and the Arts
    • Painting
    • The New England limners
    • Architecture
    • Music
  • William BRADFORD
  • Anne BRADSTREET 1612-1672
  • Edward TAYLOR 1644-1729
  • Cotton MATHER 1663-1728
  • Jonathan EDWARDS 1703-1758
• PART 2 THE RISE OF A NATIONAL LITERATURE 1765–1865
  • POLITICS AND SOCIETY * LITTERATURE AND THE ARTS **
    • Alexander HAMILTON, James MADISON, John JAY : The Federalist
  • Literature and Society
    • Major Trends in Literature
      • The Federal Age. The Literature of Reason
      • The Age of Romanticism. The Knickerbockers
    • Politics and Literature
  • Literature and the Arts
    • Painting
    • Sculpture
    • Architecture
    • Music
  • Benjamin FRANKLIN 1706-1790
  • James Hector St John CREVECOEUR 1735-1813
  • Thomas JEFFERSON 1743-1826
  • Washington IRVING 1783-1859
  • James F. COOPER 1789-1851
  • William C. BRYANT 1794-1878
  • Edgar POE 1809-1849
  • Ralph Waldo EMERSON 1803-1882
  • Henry David THOREAU 1817-1862
  • Nathaniel HAWTHORNE 1804-1864
  • Herman MELVILLE 1819-1891
  • Walt WHITMAN 1819-1892
  • Henry Wadsworth LONGFELLOW 1807-1882
• PART 3 1865 – 1915
  • POLITICS AND SOCIETY * LITERATURE AND THE ARTS **
  • Literature and Society
  • Literature and philosophy
  • Literature and the Arts
    • Painting
    • Sculpture
    • Architecture
    • Music
  • Emily DICKINSON 1830-1886
  • Mark TWAIN 1835-1910
  • Henry JAMES 1843-1916
  • Stephen CRANE 1871-1900
  • Frank NORRIS 1870-1902
  • Theodore DREISER 1871-1947
  • Jack LONDON 1876-1916
  • Edith WHARTON 1862-1937
• PART 4 1915 – 1945
  • POLITICS AND SOCIETY * LITERATURE AND THE ARTS **
  • Literature and Society
  • Major trends in literature
  • Literature and the Arts
    • Painting
    • The Birth of Motion Pictures
    • Sculpture
    • Architecture
    • Music
  • Edwin Arlington ROBINSON 18-9-1935
  • Robert FROST 1874-1963
  • Carl SANDBURG 1878-1967
  • Ezra POUND 1885-1972
  • T.S. ELIOT 1888-1965
    • But as it were an after dinner sleep
  • Langston HUGHES 1902-1967
  • Countee CULLEN 1903-1946
  • William Carlos WILLIAMS 1883-1963
  • Wallace STEVENS 1879-1955
  • E. E. CUMMINGS 1894-1962
  • Hart CRANE 1899-1932
    • To Brooklyn Bridge
  • Eugene O’NEILL 1888-1953
  • Sherwood ANDERSON 1876-1941
  • Sinclair LEWIS 1885-1951
  • Francis Scott FITZGERALD 1896-1940
  • Thomas WOLFE 1900-1938
  • John DOS PASSOS 1896-1970
  • Dashiell HAMMETT 1894-1961
  • Ernest HEMINGWAY 1899-1961
  • William FAULKNER 1897-1962
  • Erskine CALDWELL 1903-1987
  • John STEINBECK 1902-1968
  • Henry MILLER 1891-1980
  • Richard WRIGHT 1908-1960
• PART 5 AFTER 1945
  • POLITICS AND SOCIETY * LITERATURE AND THE ARTS **
  • Literature and Society
    • Major trends in literature
    • The protest and anti-success novel
    • Poetry
    • Drama
  • Literature and the Arts
    • Painting
    • Sculpture
    • Architecture
    • Music
  • Theodore ROETHKE 1908-1963
  • Robert LOWELL 1917-1977
  • Allen GINSBERG 1926-1997
  • Sylvia PLATH 1932-1963
  • Charles OLSON 1910-1970
  • Tennessee WILLIAMS 1911-1983
  • Arthur Miller born 1915
  • Edward ALBEE born 1928
  • Eudora WELTY born 1909
  • Carson Mc CULLERS 1917-1967
  • Flannery O’CONNOR 1925-1964
  • Ralph ELLISON 1914-1994
  • James BALDWIN 1924-1987
  • Jerome David SALINGER born 1919
  • Jack KEROUAC 1922-1969
  • Ray BRADBURY born 1920
  • Truman CAPOTE 1924-1984
  • Tom WOLFE born 1931
  • Vladimir NABOKOV 1899-1977
  • Isaac Bashevis SINGER 1904-1991
  • Saul BELLOW born 1915
  • Bernard MALAMUD 1914-1986
  • Philip ROTH born 1933
  • William STYRON Born 1925
  • John BARTH born 1930
  • Norman MAILER born 1923
  • Kurt WONNEGUT born 1922
  • Joseph HELLER 1923-1999
  • John UPDIKE born 1932
  • Grace PALEY born 1922
  • William GASS born 1924
  • Donald BARTHELME 1931-1989
  • John IRVING born 1942
  • Toni MORRISON born 1931
• A SELECTION OF FILMS
  • ALBEE, Edward
  • ASIMOV, Isaac
  • BALDWIN, James
  • BRADBURY, Ray
  • BURROUGHS, William
  • CAPOTE, Truman
  • CHANDLER, Raymond
  • CHOPIN, Kate
  • COOPER, James Fenimore
  • CRANE, Stephen
  • DREISER, Theodore
  • ELIOT, T.S.
  • FARRELL, J.T.
  • FAULKNER, William
  • FITZGERALD, ES.
  • HAMMETT, Dashiell
  • HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel
  • HELLER, Joseph
  • HIMES, Chester
  • IRVING, John
  • JAMES, Henry
  • JONES, Léroi
  • KEROUAC, Jack
  • LEWIS, Sinclair
  • LONDON, Jack
  • LOVECRAET, H.P.
  • MAILER, Norman
  • MALAMUD, Bernard
  • MCCULLERS, Carson
  • MELVILLE, Herman
  • MILLER, Arthur
  • MILLER, Henry
  • MITCHELL, Margaret
  • NABOKOV, Vladimir
  • NORRIS, Frank
  • O'CONNOR, Flannery
  • O'NEILL, Eugene G.
  • PLATH, Sylvia
  • POE, Edgar Allan
  • ROTH, Philip
  • SALINGER, J. D.
  • SAROYAN, William
  • SINCLAIR, Upton
  • SINGER, I.B.
  • STEINBECK, John
  • STYRON, William
  • THURBER, William
  • TWAIN, Mark
  • UPDIKE, John
  • VIDAL, Gore
  • VONNEGUT, Kurt
  • WALKER, Alice
  • WARREN, Robert Penn
  • WEST, Nathaniel
  • WHARTON, Edith
  • WILDER, Thornton
  • WILLIAMS, Tennessee
  • WOLFE, Tom
  • WRIGHT, Richard
• Author, Title, Keyword & First Line Index
• A Few Literary Manifestos