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Introduction --
Benjamin Franklin's autobiography: the first American story --
Washington Irving: the first American storyteller --
Ralph Waldo Emerson's yesterday: America's coming of age --
Emerson today: architect of American values --
Emerson tomorrow: deconstructing culture and self --
Henry David Thoreau: countercultural hero --
Thoreau: stylist and humorist extraordinaire --
Walden: yesterday, today, tomorrow --
Edgar Allan Poe: Poete Maudit --
Edgar Allan Poe: ghost writer --
Poe's legacy: the self as "Haunted Palace".
Nathaniel Hawthorne and the American past --
The Scarlet Letter: Puritan romance --
Hawthorne's "A": interpretation and semiosis --
The Scarlet Letter: political tract or psychological study? --
Hawthorne our contemporary --
Herman Melville and the making of Moby-Dick --
The biggest fish story of them all --
Ahab and the white whale --
Moby-Dick: tragedy of perspective --
Melville's "Benito Cereno": American (mis)adventure at sea --
"Benito Cereno": theater of power, or power of theater? --
Walt Whitman: the American bard appears.
Whitman: poet of the body --
Whitman: poet of the city --
Whitman: poet of death --
The Whitman legacy --
Uncle Tom's Cabin: the unread classic --
Stowe's representation of slavery --
Freedom and art in Uncle Tom's Cabin --
Emily Dickinson: in and out of nature --
Dickinson's poetry: language and consciousness --
Dickinson: devotee of death --
Dickinson: "Amherst's Madame de Sade" --
Dickinson's legacy.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: American paradise regained --
Huckleberry Finn: the banned classic --
Huckleberry Finn: A child's voice, a child's vision --
Huckleberry Finn, American Orphan --
Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson: black and white charade --
Henry James and the novel of perception --
The turn of the screw: do you believe in ghosts? --
Turning the screw of interpretation --
Stephen Crane and the literature of War --
The Red Badge of Courage: brave new world --
Stephen Crane: scientist of human behavior --
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: war against patriarchy.
"The Yellow Wallpaper": descent into hell or free at last? --
Robert Frost and the spirit of New England --
Robert Frost: "At Home in the Metaphor" -- Robert Frost and the fruits of the earth --
T.S. Eliot: unloved modern classic --
T.S. Eliot: "The Waste Land" and beyond --
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: American romance --
The Great Gatsby: a story of lost illusions? --
Fitzgerald's trimph: writing the American dream --
Ernest Hemingway's The Sun also Rises: novel of the lost generation --
The Sun Also Rises: spiritual quest --
Ernest Hemingway: wordsmith
Hemingway's The Garden of Eden: female desire unleashed --
The Garden of Eden: combat zone --
William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: the idiot's tale --
The Sound and the Fury: failed rites of passage --
The Sound and the Fury: signifying nothing? --
Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: Civil War epic --
Absalom, Absalom!: the language of love --
Absalom, Absalom!: the overpass to love --
The Grapes of Wrath: American saga --
John Steinbeck: poet of the little man --
The Grapes of Wrath: reconceiving self and family --
Invisible Man: black bildungsroman.
Invisible Man: reconceiving history and race --
Invisible Man: "What did I do to be so black and blue?" --
Eugene O'Neill: great god of American theater --
Long Day's Journey into Night: there's no place like home --
Tennessee Williams: managing libido --
A Street named Desire: the death of romance --
Death of Salesman: death of an ethos? --
Death of Salesman: tragedy of the American dream --
Toni Morrison's Beloved: dismembering and remembering --
Beloved: a story of "thick love" --
Beloved: Morrison's writing of the body --
Conclusion.
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