The Colonial Period
1. John Smith: A Description of New England
2. William Bradford: Of Plymouth Plantation
3. John Winthrop: A Model of Christian Charity
4. Anne Bradstreet
Tenth Muse Contemplations
To My Dear and Loving Husband The Flesh and the Spirit
5. Edward Taylor
Huswifery Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
6. Roger Williams
The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience
7. John Woolman: Journal
8. Thomas Paine
Common Sense The American Crisis The Rights of Man The Age of Reason
9. Philip Freneau
The Rising Glory of America The Wild Honey Suckle The Indian Burying Ground 10. Charles Brockden Brown: An American Tale
American Puritanism: Religious idealism & levelheaded common sense
1. Jonathan Edwards
The Freedom of the Will The Great Doctrine of Original Sin Defended
The Nature of True Virtue Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
2.Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography Poor Richard’s Almanac
American Romanticism
1. Washington Irving
A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, The Sketch Book: Rip Van Winkle The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The History of the Life and V oyages of Christopher Columbus
A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
The Alhambra Life of Goldsmith Life of Washington
James Fenimore Cooper
The Spy
Leatherstocking Tales: The Pioneers The Last of Mohicans The Prairie
The Pathfinder The Deerslayer
New England Transcendentalism
1.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature The American Scholar The Representative Men
2.Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience Walden A Week on the Concord and Merrimack River 3.Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter The House of the Seven Gables
Mosses from an old Manse The Blithedale Romance The Marble Faun
4.Herman Melville
Moby Dick Clarel Typee Omoo Mardi Redburn
White Jacket The Confidence Man Billy Budd
5.Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass Song of Myself There was a Child Went Forth
Cross Brooklyn Ferry
6.Emily Dickinson
My Life Closed Twice before its Close Wild Nights—Wild Nights
Mine—by the Right of the White Election Death is a Dialogue between
To Fight Aloud A Triumph Maybe The Brain is Wilder than the Sky
I know that He exists The Beggar Lad Dies Early
If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking When I was Small a Woman Died
I Reckon When I Count at All This is My Letter to the World
I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
Age of Realism
1. William Dean Howells 威廉·迪恩·豪威尔斯(1837-1920)
The Rise of Silas Lapham A Modern Instance
A Hazard of New Fortunes
2. Henry James 亨利·詹姆斯（1843-1916）
Daisy Miller The Golden Bowl
The Portrait of a Lady The Turn of the Screw
The Ivory Tower The Sense of the Past
The Ambassadors What Maisie Knew
Local colorism
1.Mark Twain美国文学之父
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (national famous)
The Gilded Age (his first novel) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (美国文学里程碑) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (colloquial style)
Life on the Mississippi A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
The Mysterious Stranger Autobiography
Innocent Abroad Roughing It Pudd’nhead Wilson
The Prince and the Pauper American Claimant
2.Bret Harte
