American Literature Study Material (PDF eBook)

Session 1: History of American Literature (literary ages and movements) + Early American Literature

Session 2: American writers of Romantic Age : Harriet Beecher Stowe Washington Irving + Herman Melville + Nathaniel Hawthorne + Louisa May Alcott

Session 3: Edgar Allan Poe + Ralph Waldo Emerson + Henry David Thoreau Session 4: Emily Dickinson + Walt Whitman + William Cullen Bryant

Session 5: American writers of Realistic Age: Henry James + Mark Twain + Jack London + Stephen Crane

Session 6: Charlotte Perkins Gilman + Theodore Dreiser + Kate Chopin + Edith Wharton

Session 7: American writers of Modern Age: William Faulkner + Ernest Hemingway

Session 8: F.Scott. Fitzgerald + Gertrude Stein + Sinclair Lewis

Session 9: Tennessee Williams + Arthur Miller

Session 10: Eugene O' Neill + Lillian Hellman + Susan Glaspell

Session 11: Robert Frost + Wallace Stevens

Session 12: Ezra Pound + Hilda Doolittle + William Carlos Williams

Session 13: American writers of Post modern Age : John Updike + Jack Kerouac + Allen Ginsberg

Session 14: Edward Albee + Adrienne Rich + Sylvia Plath

Session 15: Toni Morrison + Alice Walker + Maya Angelou & other writers

10-15 MCQs will be discussed at the end of each chapter session.