Jonathan Edwards, Charles Chauncy, and the great Awakening 113
Thomas Jefferson and the writing of the south 127
IV. The literature of the new republic 137
The American Revolution as a literary event 139
Poetry in the early republic 156
Charles brockden Brown and Early American Fiction 168
Toward a national literature 187
Part Two 1810 - 1865
Associate Editor, Terence Martin
I. The age in Perspective 305
Idealism and Independence 207
II. Cultural Diversity and literary forms 227
Washington Irving and the knickerbocker group 229
James Fenimore cooper and the writers of the frontier 240
Edgar Allan Poe and the writers of the old south 262
William Cullen Bryant and the fireside Poets 278
The rise of the woman author 289
Forms of Regional Humor 306
A new Nation's drama 324
III. Intellectual Movements and social change 343
Social discourse and nonfictional prose 345
The transcendentalists 364
IV. The American Renaissance 379
Ralph Waldo Emerson 381
Henry David Thoreau 399
Nathaniel Hawthorne 413