1、,“New England Transcendentalism” or “American Renaissance (1836 - 1855)”,Emerson Thoreau,Whitman Dickinson,Hawthorne Melville Allan Poe,“New England Poets” or “Schoolroom Poets”,Lowell,Bryant,Holmes,Whittier,Longfellow,The Reformers and Abolitionists,Beecher Stowe,Frederick Douglass,The realistic pe
2、riod (1865 - 1914) Midwestern Realism,William Dean Howells,Cosmopolitan Novelist,Henry James,Local Colorism,Naturalism,Stephen Crane,Jack London,Theodore Dreiser,Mark Twain,The “Chicago School” of Poetry,Sandburg,Lindsay,Robinson,Masters,The Rise of Black American Literature,Washington,Du Bois,Chest
3、nutt,The period of modernism (1914 - 1945) Modern poetry: experiments in form (Imagism),Ezra Pound,T.S.Eliot,Wallace Stevens,Robert Frost,Carlos Williams,Prose Writing: modern realism (the Lost Generation),F.Scott Fitzgerald,Ernest Hemingway,William Faulkner,Novels of Social Awareness,Sinclair Lewis,Dos Passos,John Steinbeck,Richard Wright,The Harlem Renaissance,Langston Hughes,Zora Neals Hurston,The Fugitives and New Criticism,The 20th Century American Drama,Eugene O Neil,
